Would you be this dishonest too?

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At some places if they make a mistake on the price or don't give you a receipt, the item or meal is free.

You scare me.

Putting oil into the water isn't like dumping a few hundred crates of tea leaves.

nar i cant do those type of things. Im the type of person who would spoil it for everyone else and tell the gas station, no one boo me ok

Why do they have to charge so much for gas? I don't blame the people for doing it.

Yeh, I can't control the world but I can have some control over my decisions and I choose to be honest. I don't want to take advantage of someone else and if I see that someone has made a mistake that is potentially damaging I will not take advantage of it.

I CAN make the world a better place one choice at a time. We ALL can.

I'm pretty sure I would have believed that the wrong price was actually the real price.
I can't drive, so I guess it doesn't really matter.

Gasoline in the United States, by western standards, is actually incredibly cheap. The price is pushed down by a number of factors, including government subsidies of exploration and production, and very low taxation on gasoline sales. To give you an example, gas is currently selling in the UK for about $7.80 a gallon. There is no price built into gas for environmental damage either, for instance, leading to a misleadingly low price for gasoline. The price of gas, to discourage use, needs to increase probably more than 100% in the US on environmental considerations alone.

Of course, the entire point of the Boston Tea Party was to protest taxation without representation—that is, the evil of the lack of representation in Parliament was the main concern, and not the evil of taxes per se, except insofar as those taxes would likely not have been imposed if Massachusetts Bay Colony had parliamentary representation.

Assuming you're an adult US citizen, you have local, state and federal representatives to whom you can present your concerns.

$3 a gallon is expensive. It all adds up. I miss the $1 gallons. I can remember back when it was between 1 and 2 dollars.

How do you quantify expensive? Is an item expensive if it costs significantly above cost to produce and ship, is it expensive if it costs more than it used to, is it expensive if it costs more than others in the world would pay for it? Gas in the US is only expensive if you compare it to how much gas cost a few years ago. It's not expensive by a metric of comparing it to other countries, nor is it expensive when compared to the cost to produce - in fact, it's surprisingly cheap compared to the cost to produce. And compared to the eventual overall cost, if you factor in environmental pollution and the cost to adapt our cities and tackle the damage that burning gasoline causes, it's probably priced below its overall cost. It's just that that eventual cost is being pushed on to future generations.

I recently went through something where I had to point out what could be an expensive mistake. The phone company I use was taken over by AT&T. I did not have a long distance carrier, but used one of those 10-10 numbers where they bill per call. They in turn would bill me through my phone company. For a month or two, I noticed that I wasn't being billed for LD calls made. So I called the phone company, and they said I didn't have a carrier. I explained that it was pay per call, and that I was usually billed through my local phone company. They said that they had no record of calls made. So, basically, I'd had three months of free long distance!

Even mistakes can be called false advertising and businesses can be sued for it, so they consider it better to give a few mistaken benefits rather than be right and go through a legal battle for it. However, the employee may certainly be fired for making such a mistake because it costs the company money and the employee is worthless than money. If there is evidence of customer tampering that customer may be banned and prosecuted. Get the picture?