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To: long-gone who wrote (76202)	9/15/2001 9:17:35 PM
From: rails99	Respond to of 116984

Long-gone: OT/ What I wish to relate to you is that if a retailer has a delivery on Mondays and is sold out by Wednesday, he can not sell to all his regular customers on the remainder of the week. Special deliveries may be possible. During a true oil shortage, allotments may be assigned and maintained in a restrictive manner. Some jobbers of gasoline in the 70's could only receive so many gallons per delivery, and only delivered so many gallons to each retailer. If you wish to control fuel allocation as a retailer; do you sell so many gallons to a customer and sell all you have in a day; or sell only a percentage of your delivery on a per day basis; or restrict customers to dollars of fuel per day or week? If at all necessary, the simplest method for a retailer is to reduce demand and restrict supply by pricing methods. Agree this is not always legal means to do so. Realize that price gouging by the greedy has nothing to do with the above and is not addressed by the foregoing comments. Just to say that demand (in general) is only met by increased supply, rationing or by price rates and/or controls. If a retailer should encounter excess or abnormal demand of product (sometimes wish I could be so fortunate); only pricing or ration methods can be used to affect the demand. State or federal laws address this issue and with mismanagement by controlling authorities, always ends up that rationing is put in place: To control abnormal demand or to assist in moderating the price pressure that may occur due to a lower supply of the product. Best Wishes; Rails