Reclaim Your Republic

This morning, I was reading this article discussing a computer glitch in Cincinnati, Ohio that allowed customers to buy gasoline for $1.40, rather than the intended price of $4.10 per gallon for about three hours.  The article explains the troubles at the station, the police coming, blah, blah blah… Then I ran across this gem from a customer who waited two hours to buy gas at $1.40 (emphasis mine).

Tiffany Smith waited in line for two hours to take advantage of the deal. She says these days, her family has to decide between buying food or buying gas, and the fuel price glitch would allow her to do both.

Thinking about this logically, IF Tiffany Smith has a 20 gallon tank (I overestimate to make my assessment favor her more and to make the math pretty easy for any government-educated that may read this),  she would pay $82 to fill up at the intended price, but she would pay $28 at the error price.  This is a difference of $54 for ONE TANK OF GAS.  It sounds to me like there are some items in Tiffany Smith’s budget that are not necessities that she is not willing to cut if $54 makes the difference between the Smith family eating and the Smith family not eating.

Luckily, this story was reported by the Associated Press, who could make it available to any news outlet that wanted to run the story.  It sounds to me like someone has an agenda to villify the oil companies by exploiting Tiffany Smith’s ignorance of completing a budget and eliminating luxury items and other non-necessities to meet her family’s income.