A Dash of Calabash

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Feature - Projected State Spending Growth

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Tracking Gas Prices

Prior to the cap, when prices on the mainland went up, Hawaii prices went up, but when mainland prices came back down, Hawaii prices stayed the same. Under the fair gas price law, Hawaii consumers are protected from that kind of questionable pricing of the past.

The wholesale Gas Price Cap has imposed this same volatility on Hawaii consumers, which has cost them money, not saved them money. When will politicians learn that they can't pass laws that manage the free-market better than it can manage itself. As noted in an earlier blog today, shortages and other problems are already starting to occur. And this is just the beginning.

Link to the chart here. (Thanks to Brian Barbata.)

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