| in an effort to create a "price war" your illustration assumes two things incorrectly though; we are not completely stopping flow through one or more pipes, rather you are reducing it to an extent the other pipes are not so few in number and flowing so near capacity that they could not handle the newly redistributed flow (everyone knows there is no shortage of oil or gasoline regardless of who retails it) The reduced pipe will do what it takes to regain that diminished flow to competing pipes...price adjustment in favor of the consumer.

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