A guy driving a very large Mercedes pulls into a gas station in a rural area, gets out and pulls a gun on the lone attendant.

"Fill 'er up!", he says.

The poor guy nervously fills the car, 22 gallons, 17 gallons over the legal allotment but not caring.

The fellow puts the gun away, pays the guy, gives him a $5 tip and drives away.

I have two stories about those times. The way I handled it was to borrow two pristine 55 gallon drums and drive my pickup out to a rural area which didn't have rationing. Too many tractors and other equipment in that area. I filled those, plus the two tanks in my pickup. That was about 150 gallons. Then I scored gas 5 gallons at a time when the lines were short and supplemented it with the stuff in the barrels.

And I had friend with a plumbing supply business. One of his employees was sort of a handy person. Walt just had that person spend all day in gas station lines filling one or another of his cars.

The monopolies which are so dearly loved by certain political types can't resist that sort of thing. Think of Enron more recently, and artificially closing down production facilities. I can still remember the rationalizations one of those certain political types making excuses for them.

If any of the farm monopolies could do the same with food, they would, but I believe they get so much in the way of federal subsidies and there is competition in the world market they haven't figured out a way. Yet.