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of gas price fixing one time. When I presented the prosecutors with ample evidence of price fixing, since every station charged exactly the same price and raised prices on exactly the same day, they would not accept the case on the grounds that it may have just been a coincidence. They demanded a witness, preferably a station owner who would testify that he got together with a group of other owners every week and they agreed upon the price. I got so desperate that I argued for a case of false pricing. Have you noticed that every gas station advertises gas for $2.96 and 9/10 per gallon, or $2.97 and 9/10, whatever. There is always that 9/10 on the end of the price. Of course, the USA has no such denomination as 9/10 of a penny, so you cannot actually buy a gallon of gas for the advertised price, anywhere, ever. Needless to say, the prosecutors did not jump at that investigative theory either."