Friday, September 12, 2008

[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] Cool.

Perhaps this is the first step in the bloody coup that I've been dreaming about for about six or seven years.
Breaking News: Gov. Beshear declares state of emergency to prevent price gouging
01:56 PM EDT on Friday, September 12, 2008

Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) - There is some breaking news regarding high gas prices.

WHAS11 News has learned that Governor Steve Beshear plans to declare a state of emergency in Kentucky for this weekend.

Declaring a state of emergency will prompt Kentucky's price gouging laws to go into effect.

Sources tell WHAS11รข€™s Mark Hebert that the governor is concerned about reports of people overreacting and getting into fights at gas stations in western Kentucky.

There are reports that gas around Paducah raised to $4.60 a gallon.

The governor is preparing to make the announcement at [sic] today.

WHAS11.com will continue to update this story as more information becomes available.
(Story)
How's that mass-transit system in Western Kentucky? Is it anywhere near the point where people can get to where they need to be by bus or train? You know... like Europe?

No?

I think we need to start executing those guilty of price gouging. We go through this every time a hurricane moves into the Gulf.

-DP




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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2008 at 12:01 PM

    $4.60 a gallon, holy, well, yeah.............  I wouldn't think that mass transit in that area is exactly, well, does it exist?  Sad when people take advantage.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2008 at 2:04 PM

    Well our area was getting to like $4.35 but now it is back down to $3.78. Was 3.58 & then 3.89 but now in between. What are businesses going to do when employees say they can't afford gas to get to work? And people say our economy is better than with our current President? How rich are they that are saying it?

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2008 at 3:49 PM

    You guy's don't know what high gas prices are. Try $2 a litre!
    Gaz

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2008 at 4:16 PM

    Yeah.  $2 a litre is steep, but the thing is, you folks over on the other side of the pond are smart and actually have functional public transportation.  In western Kentucky, they have nothing even close to that.  So, high gas prices here can cripple our nation pretty badly.  

    -Dan

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