But there was some commerce and most of it was done in dollars even if prices were a little dear. Gasoline was $100.00 a gallon when the truck had just left town. By the time the truck was back again to the stations that were given gas, those who could bear the cost of the purchase of the remaining gasoline would be charged upwards of $200.00 a gallon.
It was impossible to get such things as milk or eggs most of the time. A whole lot of farm products were unavailable in any of the market places. The farms in the southwest, California, Arizona, New Mexico, where they were not in areas controlled by the anarchists, could not produce enough food for themselves and everyone else as well. What they could sell and what little did get transported north was very dear in cost, indeed.
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