So we’re following the story of the Yokels who aren’t pumping gas. Another yokel, Harvey Pollack, also from the greater Milwaukee metropolitan area shut his gas station down, but only for one day. I’m not sure they breed them too well in Milwaukee.
Pollack shuts down his gas pump, decreasing supply in the area. Yokels like “Maria McClory, 38, drove 10 miles out of her way to buy a diet soda from Pollack’s station after seeing local television coverage of the protest.” Way to go, Maria. Increase your demand for gas while supporting a shortage. That amounts to the same idiocy as fishing as many trout as you can from a stocked lake, then demanding that the hatchery shuts down.
If I were a gas station owner in the general vicinity of any of these yokels, I would raise my prices by 5 cents or so. Supply is lower, so prices are naturally set to increase. When will they ever learn about Supply and Demand?
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