# Stupid question on gas prices

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**Created:** [May 14, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stupid-question-on-gas-prices/197454 "2008-05-14T21:20:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stupid-question-on-gas-prices/197454/42 "2008-05-21T13:31:46Z")

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> [@FS: 1998 Honda Civic EX $3800 \*pics\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-1998-honda-civic-ex-3800-pics/32561/4):
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> Because we generaly only have 1 option for utilities, because the government does not allow 5 or 6 energy producers to provide for the same city/township/etc. Since the government creates a monopoly, they regulate the pricing.
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> We can buy gas from whichever station we choose, meanwhile their supplies aren’t much different, but whatever. It is slightly different with utilities.
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> I agree though, capping profits is stupid and unamerican. Let them run wild, while we’ll feel some pain for a while, it WILL fix the problem, it always does.

Really???

I dont know where you live, but where I live I have a coice of whom I buy my electric from. Yes it is still transmitted by Allegheny power, no choice there, but I do have a choice from where it is produced, and from whom.

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