Ouchie on gas prices lately

[KBCraig]

It looks like  competition is outlawed in Louisiana:

http://www.ktbs.com/news-detail.html?cityid=1&hid=25915

BATON ROUGE (AP) -- Even though the price of gasoline is at a record high, Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom wants to make sure no one is selling it too cheap.

Odom said he will shut down stations that drop pump prices below a 6 percent retail markup.

That decision is based on new rules set by his department under a mid-1900s law against unfair competition.

Odom has the support of the Louisiana Oil Marketers and Convenience Store Association, which represents about 2,700 stores and 110 gasoline sales middlemen in the state.

[Pat K]

I notice gas is 7-10 cents cheaper, in NH, on average, then CT. I know the cig tax is always going up in CT, but, $1.51!? Cigs cost .50 a pack when I quit.

Wow 50 cents huh and tell us about that 25cent picture show thing and 5 cent ice cream uncle Llyod.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Long before I started smoking, I remember movies for 35 cents, an ice cream sandwich was a nickle, good humor on a stick 10 cents, nickle cokes.  Of course I got about 25 cents a week allowance.  Butts were 25 cents a pack when I started smoking and 50 when I quit about 10 years later.
Commercial Mexican pot was $90 a pound when I got into that, but, my fondest memory was 1 ounce baggies of Jamacian Flowers that you couldn't  close the lid on, 15 bucks!.
sonny

[Dreepa]

That decision is based on new rules set by his department under a mid-1900s law against unfair competition.

Forbid someone to sell something cheaper than the others!!

[Russell Kanning]

Sometimes the government doesn't even seem real...you can't lower your price too much

[Lloyd Danforth]

Screw the Citizens!

[Kat Kanning]

That was the USASTC act?

[Pat K]

2.23 a gal today.

[Kat Kanning]

Wow!  New York gal's are cheap!   

[Pat K]

Wow!? New York gal's are cheap!? ?

LoL now you know I ment 2.23 a gallon.

[Kat Kanning]

Oooooh gallon. 

[Russell Kanning]

Wow!? New York gal's are cheap!? ?

LoL now you know I ment 2.23 a gallon.

Stinkin' Flatlander

.....I am working on my NH phrasologies

[Pat K]

Wow!  New York gal's are cheap!   

LoL now you know I ment 2.23 a gallon.

Stinkin' Flatlander

.....I am working on my NH phrasologies

Smile when you say that mister.

2.25 today.

[Kat Kanning]

It was 2.22 in Keene yesterday

[Michael Fisher]

Long before I started smoking, I remember movies for 35 cents, an ice cream sandwich was a nickle, good humor on a stick 10 cents, nickle cokes.? Of course I got about 25 cents a week allowance.? Butts were 25 cents a pack when I started smoking and 50 when I quit about 10 years later.
Commercial Mexican pot was $90 a pound when I got into that, but, my fondest memory was 1 ounce baggies of Jamacian Flowers that you couldn't? close the lid on, 15 bucks!.
sonny

They've printed so much money over the past 30 years...  A car is now 600% more expensive on average than in the 1970s.  Our fiat money supply from 1970 has multiplied many, many times over since then.  It's truly frightening!