Friday, February 25, 2011

Gas stations playing the public, Fire Bureaucracy gets in on act (for your safety, of course)

Oil futures for April went up, and the same day, most Cape Cod (and everywhere else) stations raised their prices on gas they bought months ago, gas that was shipped months ago and that they already have in their tanks. And that's gas, not crude...

Meanwhile, the crude that went up in price won't even be delivered until April, let alone refined and then delivered as gas.

Are you awake yet ? You're being scammed. Keep being polite, it's getting you far.

Two thief owned stations in Orleans, Massachusetts are adept at raising the price a dime every 24 to 48 hours. Now that the April crude delivery is selling for $95 a barrel at this hour, why are they still raising the price instead of lowering it as fast as they raised it ?

Then comes word from Fire officials issue warning on hoarding gasoline, which is very unbiased since many, many here have their hand in... gas stations. The first statement alone is a "let us govern" snipe at the source.

We all know it's Alex Jones, Drudge, Beck, etc doing the talking.

In a response to "recent talk radio discussions" and concern about continued political instability in the Middle East, county and state fire officials are asking residents not to hoard gasoline.

Mind your business. Why did you prevent Stop and Shop from opening stations here ? Because you own stations and sit on the relevant town boards, too. If you hadn't engaged in monopoly practices and conspiracy, gas prices would be lower.

Furthermore, the number of hoarders must be so tiny that this is absurd to even worry about.

"All of us have felt (the) pinch of skyrocketing gasoline prices but hoarding gasoline and storing it in the home is not a solution," state Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said in a press release Thursday.

In the statement, Coan and Sandwich Fire Chief George Russell, president of the Barnstable County Fire Chiefs' Association, reminded residents about state regulations regarding gasoline storage and transport, including: No more than a quart of gasoline may be stored in "approved" containers in homes and garages, no more than 21 gallons can be transported at one time, gasoline cannot be stored in a container with a capacity larger than seven gallons, and gasoline has to be transported in a compartment separated from a vehicle's passengers.

More laws and regulations and rules from law and regulation and rule breakers.

Maybe you're not getting this...

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