Posted by showtaper on 10/30/05 22:18

Why would the FCC be involved? We're they illegally
broadcasting inflated prices????

The Man With No Name wrote:
> "Tarkus" <karnevil9@beer.com> wrote in message
> news:1o4z73kufjm01.dlg@tarkus.karnevil9.com...
> > 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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