What does McCain/ Obama need to do to win?

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BigPapaVol said:
remember where their inventories were? weren't they low, low.

Why didn't prices jump immediately to reflect the obscenely high wholesale pricing and why not across the board?
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Across the board in terms of what? You mean all oil products or what?
 
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#29
McCain: hammer on Obama's lack of experience, his socialist ideas, and the fact that Fannie May/Freddie Mac donated heavily to both Obama and Biden. Portray Biden as a Washington insider who's own son is/was a lobbyist.

Obama: continue to question McCain's age and continue to paint Palin as a religious extremist.

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and one more thing for the McCain camp to point out, Obama's elitism.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080916/ap_on_el_pr/obama_19
 
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BigPapaVol said:
why wouldn't stations in New Mexico have taken the opportunity to hike their prices as well?
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On a related note, here's a story that the attorney general in Florida has received 1500 complaints about gas price gouging due to Hurricane Ike.

What happened was that when Ike was heading into Texas, the word was that the refineries would be shut down to the Southeastern U.S. There were concerns about shortages and a number of stations in Orlando (can't speak to other areas of the state) raised prices a dollar or more overnight up close to $5 a gallon to take advantage of people gasing up in advance.

So don't think it can't happen.

Officials receive 1,500 complaints of gas gouging -- OrlandoSentinel.com
 
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#31
I'm not sure if it's price gouging if the people are willing to pay it.

gas supplies have been disrupted, Gustav shut power down to parts of the Colonial pipeline. The tank farms here in Knoxville are practically empty.
 
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lawgator1 said:
On a related note, here's a story that the attorney general in Florida has received 1500 complaints about gas price gouging due to Hurricane Ike.

What happened was that when Ike was heading into Texas, the word was that the refineries would be shut down to the Southeastern U.S. There were concerns about shortages and a number of stations in Orlando (can't speak to other areas of the state) raised prices a dollar or more overnight up close to $5 a gallon to take advantage of people gasing up in advance.

So don't think it can't happen.

Officials receive 1,500 complaints of gas gouging -- OrlandoSentinel.com
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it clearly happens. C-store owners can be slimeballs just like everyone else.

However, I think by and large, pump pricing is based upon the price of the inventory on hand.
 
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MG1968 said:
I'm not sure if it's price gouging if the people are willing to pay it.

gas supplies have been disrupted, Gustav shut power down to parts of the Colonial pipeline. The tank farms here in Knoxville are practically empty.
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Of course it is, that's the point. If its a needed commodity and a disaster declaration has been declared in your state, the law may well be that they cannot raise prices to take advantage of the shortage. That is what is going on here in Florida. Because the state had declared that situation to exist, the retailers could not raise prices in that manner to take advantage of dwindling supply. (especially when it later turned out that the supply disruption was dealt with and was more rumor than fact)
 
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I wonder how many complaints of price gouging are filed against attorneys?
 
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It's simple really. All either candidate has to do is get a strong enough emotional response from the voters. If you do that, facts don't matter. Politicians prey on the emotions of the weak minded voters who just want to feel good rather than actually take a look at what and who they are voting for. Use your brains people. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes. And very often the eyes and ears are fooled.
 
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