(08-15-2024, 10:35 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(08-15-2024, 09:52 AM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote: So, you are ok with the $69 hotel in Ocala charging $369/night during a hurricane evacuation?

So, I assume you are also ok if all the gas stations along I95 charge $20/gallon for gas during an evacuation.

Can't wait to see the Publix prices this summer when a hurricane is on the way .... perhaps $100 per case will be fitting.

Definitely a good way to weed out the poor people and enable the rich to survive national disasters.

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Dumb move to pull out the US troops in the 1st place.  Wonder who made that idiotic deal with the Taliban.

Trump's surrender to the Taliban was pretty much equivalent to the Japan's Emperor Hirohito surrender in WWII 

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-sec...-collapse/

There's no such thing as price gouging.  There's market price and price fixing.  Keeping a hotel artificially low because of "fairness" would actually hurt supply.  Instead of a family of 4 making do with 1 room as they might do because of price, if they happen to be "first to the counter" to reserve rooms, they might instead reserve 3 rooms leaving fewer for other needy families.  1 for the husband and wife and 1 each for their adult son and daughter who prefer not to share a room together.  This example is hyperbolic, but it's one of many examples for why a family or other group traveling together might want multiple rooms when 1 would suffice.  Also, higher market prices motivate people from other areas to load up their trucks and bring needed supplies like generators to an affected area.  Without a profit motive, those people aren't bothering and people in affected areas who want generators and are willing to pay over MSRP won't even have the opportunity.

Your example is nonsense.
In an emergency no one's going to magically put more hotel rooms on the market.
They may load up their trucks with supplies and come in after the storm has passed but not during the evacuation. 
Yes generally suppliers should be able to react to scarcity by setting prices higher.  But not in some types of emergencies.

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(08-15-2024, 09:25 PM)Jagwired Wrote: No way, not kakula and the band of merry libs.

https://twitter.com/Franklin_Graham/stat...-father-ad

It's ironic that Franklin always feels a need to tell us who his dad voted or would have voted for.  

Because his dad never told us, not in 70+ years of voting.

Franklin uses his name but doesn't follow his example.

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