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  1. Thank you for the answers. From what I could find it looks like there is nothing new relating to these laws. So hopefully whatever laws were in place have seen been revoked.
  2. Yes, the article to which SoftwareNerd pointed to is what I'm talking about. No i'm not talking about the price floor, its a certain price that must be marked up above the amount it costs. Also it only applies to some states.
  3. Besides the act itself being wrong what does the data show for gas prices in states that do have these laws in effect vs ones that don't. Its getting pretty late and i've checked some of the states that supposdly have the laws and they seem to be substantially higher gas prices then the ones that don't have these laws. But a study or better comparison would be great. Thanks for any help, i'll check back tomorrow morning.
  4. Hi, i'm still relatively new and don't come here often. But after reading about these laws that exist I had to get a straight answer concerning them. I find it horrible that stations arn't allowed to sell cheap gas. "small businesses" use the excuse that big businesses like "wal-mart" which currently fights this would simply undercut their prices until the small stations goes out of business and then use its monopolistic position to jack prices back up. Is this a good excuse or no? Thanks for the help.
  5. Thankyou for all your replies. After some careful thought I came up with two solutions which I think would work quite well. The first one being that the students would simply elect a food service to run the campus establishments every 5 yrs or so. This would atleast make the establishments choosen in accordance with what the student body wants and make it so there wouldn't be anything to complain about. The only downside is the costs are huge and depending on the fluctuation of student opinion 5 yrs would have to be long enough for them to turn over a profit they think is worthy enough to setup shop. At the same time though it would want the current food service to do what they can to serve the student body well if they wanted to be "reelected". My second idea would be to simply get rid of all the establishments and simply have 4 or 5 areas that franchises/eating places could move into. Like a full implementation of the U.B. Commons that KevinDW78 mentioned. Then let the market work out the quality/price question. Only problem that I could see is that having all fast food places wouldn't be the best idea. Maybe an elected committee of some sort could determine what is in the best interests of the student body concerning health and variety (ie taco bell good for lunch and maybe dinner not so good for breakfast) Thanks, comments would be great.
  6. Well I don't drive and the neighborhood is pretty rough. I consider my college a bit of an oasis. There are not really any alternatives within a mile of the campus except the turkish place and maybe a restaurant called Korean grill which i'm not sure I want to go to. Also i'm glad Scott_Connery mentioned a food plan. I am required to pay for a meal plan limited to Aramark places when I live on campus. The meal plan gives me a certain number of times per day I can have a meal in the cafeteria and then a "declining balance" at the start of each semester which I may use to purchase food from the other Armark places.
  7. Hi, I'm new to the forums and just recently got interested in Objectivism. I have a question that hopefully someone will be able to answer. I've just started living on campus and found out that every single eating establishment(1. a cafe, 2. a fast food place 3. a cafeteria style place) is owned by the same corporation "Aramark". I've learned from experience as well as talking to other people that most of these places offer horrible quality food. I don't have that much to complain about the cafe except they don't innovate as often as I would like. The fast food place offers items that makes McDonald's look like fine dining and the cafeteria has the same variety and good meals as a public school does. Would it be right to blame this on a monopoly that my college puts in place or is it just the only possible solution to such a community? (my college is pretty small) The surrounding area doesn't offer much alternative except for a Turkish restuarant that offers pretty good gyros. Any help would be appreciated. P.S. I hope this is the right place to post this.
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