Station Owner Kills Rival in Gas Price Fight

[loser_user]

Detroit police say a war between two gas stations took a shocking and tragic turn with a station owner shooting his rival who was irate over a gas-price cut.
Investigators say the confrontation started when the owner of the BP station on that corner went to the Marathon station to discuss with its owner why he'd dropped the price for a gallon of unleaded gas to $2.93 per gallon, three cents less than BP. (Snip)In a wild post-script, it appears the BP station took advantage of the shooting. While police were still swarming the Marathon station, the BP jacked up its prices. WXYZ's Bill Proctor reports that as soon as the owner's body was taken away, workers at BP changed the price-per-gallon of unleaded from $2.96 to $3.09.



http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=29...

[denem]

1. Wow - just wow. n/t

[TahitiNut]

2. Drat!! I filled up today. I wish I'd known. That's not too far.

[cboy4]

3. The owner of the BP station must be a Republican.

Wow. That's crazy.

[denem]

4. Maybe Libertarian

pure unbridled competition.

[Enrique]

9. actually he was trying to thwart competition

he went over to the other station to complain about its price cut, which probably violates antitrust laws.

[liberalla]

7. Jawad Bazzi was the owner of the BP station.

A 45-year-old father of five children. Tragic and unnecessary.

Strange they are not naming the shooter (owner of the Marathon station).
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Just a hint of things to come in this neocon poisoned world.

[cboy4]

8. Yea, I was under the impression the BP owner was the

shooter.

He turned out to be the victim, yet his gas station jacked up its prices to take advantage of the crime scene across the street.

[liberalla]

11. I know! Weird, the insanity of the whole thing...

three cents a gallon?

The screws tighten and people become desperate?
Sure not worth going to jail for and not worth dying for.

[1932]

5. No Blood for Oil?

[Gman]

6. The higher gas prices go

the less people will look for a price a few cents lower because the percent incremental difference in price becomes less and less.

[AndyTiedye]

10. Taking "Gas War" a Bit Too Literally

[MADem]

12. I saw that on the tee vee and I just could not believe it. I mean, really.

It's worth killing a guy over three frigging cents?

And that price jacking after the guy croaked...now that's just...cold.