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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
I can appreciate that the perception of things can sometimes seem like Skullduggary. Those 'few cents' each time are actually companies trying to be proactive to avoid a shortage or missing a market opportunity. When a major event happens on the supply side companies forecast what that's going to do to inventory and then watch competitors prices and then adjust accordingly. They don't want to have too much inventory or too little. The worst thing that can happen to a gas station is to run out between deliveries.
I suppose the phrase 'market opportunity' is what you call 'gouging'. I hate to go back to my e-bay example, but go try to buy something from the 'Buy/Sell' thread and ask someone to cut their price in half and sell that to you despite someone else's bid because they won't starve if they sell it to you at that price. It's not right to expect that of them nor is it right to expect that from any company selling anything.
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You are taking the position as if the oil companies will suffer if gas prices were to hold at 80 cents throughout a full year. That's B.S. and i'm saying that while ENCANA is building the two tallest office towers west of Toronto, i highly doubt that they would suffer, they just take advantage of a market that NEEDS the product that they offer rather than WANTS it.