Yesterday some dude posted a video to shame apparently Indian gas station owners charging $10 a gallon around the Hurricane Helene disaster area. The lolberts answered with rebuttals that free market pricing is the best rationing mechanism in a time of scarcity.
People are saying that the gas station could ration gallons per customer and keep the same price, and the lolberts are saying this is communist price control.
I'm not really sure how much merit is held by either position since I've never really thought about this with respect to a disaster area. Clearly the 1973 price controls were a bad idea, but this is a debate over what a private business owner should do after a hurricane. My gut feeling is that gas should be rationed by customer, not by pricing. But maybe the gas station is passing along supply chain pricing to a certain extent?
edit: Texas punished gas price gouging in 2019 after Hurricane Harvey.
Anyone who can afford a mansion near the coast would've fucked off to their second home before the hurricane makes landfall.
Or they'd stay and turn on all the lights to lord over the peasants.
It's called hyperbole. These days they're going to have solar and a dozen powerwalls, subsidized by your tax money.
Hyperbole is what women use to "prove" a point. At least make your fanciful fiction make sense.
Fun fact, they'll get government disaster relief money just like regular people that have a single home. And they'll get more of it due to the value of their house.