It will make my day. He figured, rightly, that he'd make a lot more than 12 cents off the customers' other purchases. Nobody tried to pass a law saying he couldn't do it. Better competitors came along. But Webb never asked the Legislature to save him.
Politicians have no business meddling in the marketplace except to prevent predatory pricing.
Last I looked, there are more than enough oil companies and gasoline stations to make that a red herring except in a few isolated localities. A law that spoke only to those would be reasonable. That's not what they're trying to do in Tallahassee. St. Petersburg Times.