Kentucky Town Tries Exercise In Gasoline Socialism

SOMERSET, KY – A small town in Kentucky is experimenting with socialism by opening a public gas station that uses taxpayer funds to sell fuel at lower prices. The municipal-run filling station sells gas at $3.36 a gallon in order to try to drive down prices, but some are saying this is going to drive others out of business.

The mayor of Somerset claims that the station was created by the government in order to respond to the demands of his townspeople’s complaints about high gas prices. The station features nothing but gasoline for sale, no snacks or repairs and there is only regular, unleaded gas. Competing gas stations are furious that their tax dollars are being used to fund their competitors.

“They’ve used the taxpayer money that I have paid them over these years to do this, to be against us,” Duane Adams said. “I do not see how they can’t see that as socialism.”

“We are one community that decided we’ve got backbone and we’re not going to allow the oil companies to dictate to us what we can and cannot do,” Mayor Eddie Girdler said. “We’re going to start out small. Where it goes from here we really don’t know.”

But most people who understand the laws of supply and demand do know where it goes. It will mean that people will consider lower gas prices a right, instead of a luxury and will demand even more socialism when the supply cannot meet the demand. Another industry leader asked a very relevant question of the government: “If milk got too high, are you going to build a dairy?”

 

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