Ongoing gas shortage leaves nearly 90% of DC pumps without fuel

I want you to answer the question you were asked according to the definition of "shortage" you tacitly accepted yesterday.

I did answer the quesiton you stupid asshole.

Try following the thread.

Now YOU need to answer for your absence from DC on 1/6.
 
I want you to answer the question you were asked according to the definition of "shortage" you tacitly accepted yesterday.

Again, it's your stupid misperception that you think I "tacitly agreed" to anything yesterday.

But I get why you need to frame it that way; I've run circles around you in this debate, so the best you can do is try to play "gotcha" over something you've already misunderstood.
 
Again, it's your stupid misperception that you think I "tacitly agreed" to anything yesterday.

No, it's not. Your failure to challenge the definition stipulates assent. Now, answer the question according to the definition you tacitly accepted yesterday

If consumers cannot obtain a commodity upon demand, is there a shortage of that commodity?
 
No, it's not.

Yes, it is.

You are a "short bus" person who is "fucking retarded" and has "brain damage".


Your failure to challenge the definition stipulates assent.

LOL!

I answered your stupid leading question about a dozen posts ago. It looks like you ignored that post because it made you look like an ass.



If consumers cannot obtain a commodity upon demand, is there a shortage of that commodity?

Not necessarily.

If consumers cannot obtain the commodity because there's no supply, then that's a shortage.

If consumers cannot obtain the commodity because the seller is holding the supply back, then that's capitalism.
 
But there was supply...they were just holding back that supply.

So it wasn't as if there was no gas in those pipelines; the truth is they were filled with gas, they just weren't moving that gas through the pipeline because their billing system was hacked.

So people could actually fill their vehicles. Why then the lines?
 


About 12,466 stations had reportedly run empty as of Sunday evening.

Gasoline shortages continue to plague much of the East Coast, leaving a majority of the stations in Washington, D.C., out of fuel.







https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/dc-gas-outages-colonial-pipeline

A problem for the little people, not the power elite.

Also, please unban APL - he's said he'll be less disruptive, and is one of the few (mostly) sane liberals here.
 
If consumers cannot obtain a commodity upon demand, is there a shortage of that commodity?

Not necessarily because a shortage would mean there's no supply.

But there was plenty of supply, it was just being held back by Colonial.
 
No, they couldn't fill their vehicles because Colonial wouldn't release the gas they were holding.

If I place a plastic bag over your head, will you experience a shortage of oxygen, or will you say there's no shortage because there's plenty of oxygen that you aren't able to breathe?

I'd be willing to try the experiment.
 
You didn't object to the definition, therefore, you accepted it. Silence is assent.

A shortage is when there is no supply.

But there was plenty of supply, Colonial was just holding it back.

So that's not a shortage, that's more like an embargo than anything.
 
Not according to the definition that you tacitly accepted. Go back and read it again.

I didn't accept any definition...you are pretending I did for the sake of your pathetically weak argument that a private company embargo is the same thing as a shortage of supply.

You tacitly accepted the election wasn't stolen because you didn't show up to DC on 1/6 to do anything about it.
 
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