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Black market goods emerge wherever a lack of a typically available commodity occurs. Gas, for example, is in short supply in a few areas affected by Hurricane Sandy, and black market gas is going for double and in some instances more than quadruples the standard going rate. <br />
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<b>Price of gasoline on black market</b><br />
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Hurricane Sandy has wrecked large swathes of the east coast of the U.S., such as massive damages to parts of New York and New Jersey. Amid fatalities and more significant damage that has left numerous people homeless, the storm also severely interrupted the supply of gas in that part of the country.<br />
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A black market opens up really fast when a commodity becomes scarce, such as right now on the east coast. For instance, on Craigslist, you can get black market gasoline for $20 to $30 a gallon, according to the Huffington Post.<br />
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<b>Even gas cans getting marked up</b><br />
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Some people stocked up before the hurricane hit and others are going out to gasoline stations and stocking up to sell at an enormous profit. ABC quoted a male who stockpiled 500 gallons before the storm hit and sold his entire stock for $11 per gallon. New York magazine quotes a variety of prices posted on Craigslist, ranging from $8 per gallon to $20 per gallon, and others selling five gallon parcels for $70 to $100 for five gallons.<br />
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Generally, a fuel can only cost a few dollars to get, but people have been selling them for $40 apiece or $200 for a five-gallon can, according to ABC. They are a hot item too apparently.<br />
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Everything has to stay anonymous definitely considering it is entirely illegal. People are getting short term loans for their lawyers since it is illegal during a disaster to markup prices more than 10 percent.<br />
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<b>Takes place all the time</b><br />
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According to the Los Angeles Times, there was an employee in Los Angeles that got arrested for stealing and selling 800 gallons of the city�s supply of gas. There are a ton of black market items out there, surprisingly, and you can have access to them for those who have the internet.<br />
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It's not even new for New York. In February, when fuel prices were more than $4 per gallon in the city, a number of people were leaving the city, getting large amounts of gas for cheaper outside the city and selling it, according to the New York Daily News. One man was found by police with more than 400 gallons in container inside a van.<br />
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There was an enormous gasoline black market during World War II when there was fuel rationing. Just expect that there will be hoarding and selling for profit quite often when there is a fuel shortage.

EBooks are a technology whose time has come. But do not be so quick to give up the printed page.<br />
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Art on books<br />
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There are images in eBooks, but they are hard to see and certainly would not last if there was no electricity around. The art in books is pretty much remarkable, specifically in children�s books or older books. There are beautiful leather covers and art panels in these books.<br />
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Keeping it from being altered<br />
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There is a lot of censorship out there that needs to be stopped, and it even takes place in print books that have been released as a later edition. Still, Amazon, Google and some other industries are willing to change passages after an individual has already bought the eBook. Many people want to get what they paid for, which is why it is annoying when companies change it remotely.<br />
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�Fahrenheit 451� showed us what it would be like if books were burned. In the United States, that is less likely to occur on that scale. However, in instances of natural disaster that knocks out the supply of electrical power, what occurs to eBooks? Once battery power is gone, there are no eBooks. If the Internet were to fade away or fall under overt governmental or corporate dictatorship, eBooks would be severely restricted - and likely censored.<br />
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Purposes of sharing reason<br />
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Whenever you get an eBook, it is really hard to share those books with the people around you. You have to give the whole machine to your friend rather than just one the one book. With a hardback book, you can actually give the book to anybody you need for reading.

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<b>History of Democracies</b> <br />
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Food for Thought!<br />
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This is very interesting and a worth while read. The statistics on this are mind boggling!!!<br />
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About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republicsome 2,000 years prior:<br />
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&quot;A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.&quot;<br />
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&quot;The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:<br />
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;<br />
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;<br />
3. From courage to liberty;<br />
4. From liberty to abundance;<br />
5. From abundance to complacency;<br />
6. From complacency to apathy;<br />
7. From apathy to dependence;<br />
8. From dependence back into bondage ..&quot;<br />
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Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St.Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000<br />
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Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million;<br />
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000<br />
States won by: Gore: 19 Bush: 29<br />
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2 Bush: 2.1<br />
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Professor Olson adds: &quot;In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned projects and living off government welfare...&quot;<br />
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Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the &quot;complacency and apathy&quot; phase of Professor Tyler's definition of<br />
democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the &quot;governmental dependency&quot; phase. The critical point is when people living on government entitlements passes 50% and can control future elections. From that point, the party that promises the most free entitlements wins. Unfortunately less than 50% of the population will be paying the taxes to support the majority. It won't be long after that the country will be bankrupt.

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