Alternative Power sources - Re: Gasoline price gouging

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Re: Gasoline price gouging

David Williams

2007-05-30, 5:25 pm

-> Talk to some one who worked in law enforcement during that time and see what
-> they tell you about the black market during WWII. If you had money you
-> could buy just about anything and as much of it as you wanted.

What country are you talking about? I was a small kid during WW2, in
England. I remember the end of it, and the years afterwards when
rationing was still in force. Yes. There were fiddles. Most of them had
nothing to do with money, but with whom one knew. My grandmother knew a
farmer. A few extra eggs, etc., went her way. But, in the overall
picture, these fiddles made very little difference.

Would a sufficiently rich person have been able to get unlimited
supplies of everything? I don't think so.

dow

Anthony Matonak

2007-05-30, 9:25 pm

David XXXXXXXX wrote:
> -> Talk to some one who worked in law enforcement during that time and see what
> -> they tell you about the black market during WWII. If you had money you
> -> could buy just about anything and as much of it as you wanted.
>
> What country are you talking about? I was a small kid during WW2, in
> England. I remember the end of it, and the years afterwards when
> rationing was still in force. Yes. There were fiddles. Most of them had
> nothing to do with money, but with whom one knew. My grandmother knew a
> farmer. A few extra eggs, etc., went her way. But, in the overall
> picture, these fiddles made very little difference.

Unlike the United Kingdom, the United States never had any dire
shortages and, as I understand it, the majority of the rationing
was more for precautionary and propaganda purposes.

Anthony

no spam

2007-05-31, 8:25 pm

>-> Talk to some one who worked in law enforcement during that time and see
>what
> -> they tell you about the black market during WWII. If you had money you
> -> could buy just about anything and as much of it as you wanted.
>
> What country are you talking about? I was a small kid during WW2, in
> England. I remember the end of it, and the years afterwards when
> rationing was still in force. Yes. There were fiddles. Most of them had
> nothing to do with money, but with whom one knew. My grandmother knew a
> farmer. A few extra eggs, etc., went her way. But, in the overall
> picture, these fiddles made very little difference.

I'm specifically refering to the US but I'm sure it applies to everywhere.

> Would a sufficiently rich person have been able to get unlimited
> supplies of everything? I don't think so.

I don't think so either, there were some things that were in too short
supply. New cars for example. But I'm sure your grandmother's farmer
friend could have persuaded to send a "few extra eggs, etc." to someone who
offered to pay 10 times market value. I'm also fairly sure that the local
grocer to list a extra pound of sugar as 'spilled' and the butcher to have
some beef 'spoil'. IOW, those with money who didn't want to didn't miss
much cream and sugar in their tea.

How do you know how much a difference the 'fiddles' made? If each farmer
fiddled only one dozen eggs a week how many eggs would that be out of the
supply chain?

sno

2007-05-31, 9:25 pm

no spam wrote:
>
>
> I'm specifically refering to the US but I'm sure it applies to everywhere.
>
>
> I don't think so either, there were some things that were in too short
> supply. New cars for example. But I'm sure your grandmother's farmer
> friend could have persuaded to send a "few extra eggs, etc." to someone who
> offered to pay 10 times market value. I'm also fairly sure that the local
> grocer to list a extra pound of sugar as 'spilled' and the butcher to have
> some beef 'spoil'. IOW, those with money who didn't want to didn't miss
> much cream and sugar in their tea.
>
> How do you know how much a difference the 'fiddles' made? If each farmer
> fiddled only one dozen eggs a week how many eggs would that be out of the
> supply chain?

Something you seem not to be taking into account...the rationing was
something
that most of the people agreed with it was relatively volentary...and
there
was a lot of peer pressure to "do the right thing" and only make use of
black mkt in emergency and as was said the price of stuff was super
high...which helped to keep the mkt relatively small.

thank you for listening to my thoughts.....sno
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