MERRILL, Wis. - A service station that offered discounted gas to senior citizens and people supporting youth sports has been ordered by the state to raise its prices.
Center City BP owner Raj Bhandari has been offering senior citizens a 2 cent per gallon price break and discount cards that let sports boosters pay 3 cents less per gallon.
But the state Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer Protection says those deals violate Wisconsin's Unfair Sales Act, which requires stations to sell gas for about 9.2 percent more than the wholesale price.
Bhandari said he received a letter from the state auditor last month saying the state would sue him if he did not raise his prices. The state could penalize him for each discounted gallon he sold, with the fine determined by a judge.
Bhandari, who bought the station a year ago, said he worries customers will think he stopped the discounts because he wants to make more money. About 10 percent of his customers had used the discount cards.
Dale Van Camp said he bought a $50 card to support the local youth hockey program. It would have saved him about $100 per year on gas, he said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com
UNBELIEVABLE!!
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Is it any surprize that inflation keeps going up with this type of leadership in our country? It has been obvious for some time that the basic mainstay of capitalism, market resistance, no longer exists. But it shocks me that a state would instatutionalize this robbery of those on fixed incomes by incorporating it into law.
WE DO NOT LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY ANY MORE. WE LIVE IN A SOCALIST STATE WHERE THE GOVERNMENT IS MUCH LARGER AND STRONGER THAN IT'S PEOPLE. IT IS SO SAD TO ME THAT OUR FATHERS AND GRANDFATHERS LOST THEIR LIVES AND YOUTH FIGHTING FOR OUT FREEDON AND THE GOVERNMENT IS TAKING IT AWAY LIKE THE ENIMIES WE FOUGHT THREATENED TO DO. WHEN WILL AMERICANS RISE UP AND CALL THESE POLITICIANS TO TELL THEM THAT WE WANT TO BE RESTORED TO A FREE STATE AND THAT WE AS PEOPLE OF THIS GREAT LAND WILL NO LONGER TOLARATE BEING FINED, SURCHARGED, ARRESTED AND HARRASSED FOR DOING WHAT OUR CONSTITUTION GURANTEES US....BEING FREE.
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