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Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Prices go down when demand goes down and supply remains constant/increases, or when supply increases and demand remains constant/decreases. Neither of those two scenerios are occuring here because you are just buying the same quantity of gas from another supplier. Also, why stop at $1.50? Is there any significance to that figure?
Exxon Exec: "Oh no: it seems people are irrationally boycotting our product until we lower our price to the seemingly arbitrary value of $1.50. We could reduce our price by a quarter to meet their demands, thereby losing out on huge amounts of revenue... or we could ignore the small fraction of 1% of our previous customers that are now boycotting us. I'll have to think on this one..."
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