Major news media are reporting UBER's latest scam: charging 1000% inflated prices on New Years Eve, with its "surge pricing," with people reporting spending $200 on fifteen minute cab rides.
Will the City of St. Augustine regulate UBER like other taxicab companies, or will favoritism continue?
Will the State of Florida enact lobbyist-drafted legislation preventing cities from regulating UBER?
Stay tuned.
Be vigilant.
Founded as UBERCab, UBER has a market capitalization of $62.5 billion and claims it just provided its billionth cab ride.
Monopolists have a way of getting their way -- as Henry Demarest Lloyd said of the Rockefeller/Flagler Standard Oil Trust, it "did everything to the Pennsylvania legislature except refine it."
In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
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