re: #2 lostlakehiker

You left out:

(5) I’m running out of gas. I’m desperate. The government has an emergency supply of gas which it is rationing to as many drivers as possible so that they have just enough to get somewhere safe.

When essential supplies are scarce, they have to be rationed. When price gouging is allowed, the rich will get what they want and the poor (or the newly poor who have JUST LOST EVERYTHING) will get fucked.

Emergency survival supplies are like health care.