Vermonters are paying more for gasoline than all but three states, Alsaka, Hawaii, and Schwarzennegers's Caleefornia. Why is that? Seems very strange to me.
A friend who owns a gas station tells me that no one in the area wants to be the first to cut prices because they are trying to make up for claimed losses in sales volume when prices spiked a few months ago.
Seems like price gouging to me!!
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Our citizenry tolerates it. Wealthy newcomers to Utopia Vermont will pay more for everything. The beaten natives can't take up the slack, organize a revolt, say with a weeklong fill-up boycott because there's less of them (1) they're dying off and (2) they'd have to join forces with the former which isn't an option because the former don't care about the costs. One local left liberal activist I know welcomed the higher gas prices because he thinks it will force us to move to alternate energy faster. But average families can't handle the rapid prices increases. But that point seems entirely lost on this person. Very weird!
Higher fuel prices may spur alternative energy development, but what will we burn in our cars? Natural gas as Mr. T. Boone Pickens suggests? Use electricity instead...where will it come from? Wind? Solar? Nuclear?
Unless GM finds some cash PDQ, they won't be around to make cars that run on alternative energy. We will live with petroleum fueled automobiles for two or three more decades.
The Vermontopians will live well whatever the energy source.
Here an example of someone living in Vermont who looks negatively at this response to seek out lower prices:
"I always find something slightly distasteful in discussions of bargains and cheapness and saving money. What is bargain-hunting other than an attitude of getting as much as possible out of this earth while giving back as little as possible? It's kind of a slimy way to live. Because we live in an impersonal economy, the sliminess is removed from sight, because we don't see the mouths out of which we are taking the food, when we try to spend as little as possible."
I would guess most Vermonters see price hunting not as vice but just common sense.
Right on the money, "Eggs!!"
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