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06-10-2003, 06:29 PM
In a statement to the North Carolina Senate, the FTC had the following to say regarding selling motor fuel below cost:

" --Low prices benefit consumers. Consumers are harmed
only if low prices allow a dominant competitiior to raise
prices later to supracompetive levels.

--Scholarly studies indicate that below-cost pricing that
leads to monopoly rarely occurs. The Supreme Court has
found such studies to be crediablle."

Read the FTC comments:

http://www.ftc.gov/os/2003/05/ncclsenatorclodfelter.pdf