--- You wrote:
Not that there aren't any other options (at this point) for getting
tickets to the Cornell @ Harvard game, but are you implying that a gas
station charging $10 a gallon during an emergency isn't price gauging
simply because people are willing to pay?
--- end of quote ---

I'm saying that nothing in the sports realm is price gouging. Take World Series
t-shirts. They charge $20 for something that probably cost em $1 or $2 to make.
But no one considers that price gouging.

Comparing a gas crisis to a sporting event is neither here nor there...

But I suppose taken to its extreme, if a gas company could sucessfully maintain
its business by selling gas for $10 a gallon in the face of other companies
charging less, then I wouldn't consider it gouging. If people are too stupid to
go down the street to a cheaper station, that's not the station's problem.
There's a grey area if we're talking something like an immediate panic mode
after a sudden earthquake, but then I'd ask what are you doing driving around
in an earthquake to begin with if you're not an emergancy official...