Magnifisyncopathological: Austin Gas Prices

May 20, 2004

Austin Gas Prices - Free Market in Action

AustinGasPrices.com has a motto and it is "Informed Consumers are Wise Consumers."

The site tracks, via user submissions, regular unleaded prices around the Travis County/Austin area. I wish it had diesel prices, but given that diesel is almost always at or lower than regular unleaded, I just need to find the cheapest convienence stores on the chart that sell diesel.

Just about any legislator and politician today holds "principles" that would allow him or her to support a government-funded or -run operation that tracks local fuel prices in order to inform consumers. The AGP website is a simple and direct refutation of that hypothetical notion. Capitalism at work doesn't always mean millions of dollars in global inventory, corporate lawyers by the dozen, or irritating commercials.

Posted by Drizzten at May 20, 2004 04:27 PM

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