Posted by The Man With No Name on 10/30/05 20:59

"Tarkus" <karnevil9@beer.com> wrote in message
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> On 10/30/2005 11:33:29 AM, Mark Spatny wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:18:47 -0400, Rich <none@none.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The Orient sees theft as normal business practice,
>>
>> As opposed to American oil companies, which use any excuse to jack up
>> prices and gouge consumers, even though they have been making record
>> profits.
>>
>> The entire world sees theft as a normal business practice...It's just
>> called different things depending on whether you are doing the
>> thieving or on the receiving end.
>
> It's not theft to raise your prices to meet demand. It's called
> capitalism. There is no law that says you're only allowed to make a
> certain amount of profit.
> --
> "I don't reckon I got no reason to kill nobody. Mmm."
>
> Now playing: the radio.

Actually, I think there are some sort of laws to that effect.

I recall reading on Snopes.com about a gas-station that raised it's prices
to ridiculous levels (something like $10 a litre) around the time of the New
Orleans floods, but were quickly ordered by the FCC to lower them back to
reasonable levels.
Not exactly sure what the technicalities of it are, but there are laws like
that.

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