Insanity in America
It's a rampant disease that seems to strike primarily among the far right. Following the example of Timothy McVeigh, another lunatic has attacked a building in Texas. He did it by flying his private plane into the building kamikazi style, apparently because IRS offices were located there. *shakes head* Teabaggers are loonies. Too bad his name wasn'
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Actually, as of this morning, Harvard prices have risen by ten cents from yesterday, so they are once again significantly higher than Marengo.
This is a rural area, with no extra clean air or other pollution rules beyond the statewide ones that apply to everyone.
My guess is that yesterday the Harvard stations finally realized that they were losing business by setting their prices so high, and having heard that Marengo was at $2.44 while they were at $2.63 they gave in and split the difference. At the same time, Marengo stations found that their supply price had risen and they raised their prices. Now this morning Harvard stations also reflect a supply price increase by jumping their own prices back up ten cents.
In essence, after watching this for months, I conclude that Harvard's stations, several of which are owned by one person, are just plain greedy and charging the highest price they can get away with. They are first to increase their price and last to lower it. I suspect too that the independent station in Harvard is subject to threats and arm-twisting if he doesn't keep his price within a few pennies of the others.
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