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.
Where'd you see this boat story? I did some looking and couldn't find it.
I don't expect the media to make their pets look bad, but this is the closest story I can find.
Kind of a far cry from your comment. You have one instance of people trying to get into an empty, inoperable boat (as the drivers were in a truck taking shelter), not hijacked.
Where is this part?
You need proof of niggers behaving like niggers?
I need proof of someone making a specific claim, yeah.