From the Sioux Falls Argus Leader:
Several hundred vehicles lined up outside a Sioux Falls gas station this morning so motorists could pump 10 free gallons of unleaded gasoline.
It was part of a promotion by Allstate Insurance to recognize Sioux Falls drivers for being the safest in the nation. The company in a new study calculated the chance that drivers in 200 of the nation's most populated cities would be involved in an accident. Sioux Falls drivers average 14 years between each crash, 30 percent better than the national rate of one every 10 years, Allstate said.
Police used cones to keep traffic organized and actually helped pump the gasoline at the Get 'N Go Gas Station at 2401 S. Louise Ave.
All that waiting by the drivers involves the sacrifice of something and those who would have gotten gas at the going rate are forced to wait or to go somewhere else. The police have alternative uses. So do the traffic cones. For all y'all politicians who truly want to do something about the high cost of gas by outlawing so-called gas price gouging or by setting price ceilings, enacting such legislation won't do the trick. Doing so doesn't change the underlying demand for gas. All it does is alter the type of sacrifice that's made.