The “boiled frog” theory of gas prices
Have you heard the story of the boiled frog? The didactic tale tells of putting a frog in water and gradually, oh so slowly, turning up the heat, until, in the end, the frog is boiled. And the frog has made no attempt to jump out. The “moral” of the fable is, from what I’ve been told, that you can get someone to be accustomed to any situation simply by changing the environment very, very slowly. And the person, or people, is “boiled” before they know it. While it’s probably not true that you can boil a frog , the …read more
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