No parking brake holds a vehicle on an incline as well as it does on a decline. The only parking brake system that will hold equally is one that employs the disc brake caliper. Another function of the parking brake system on the Nitro is that they do not self-adjust sufficiently at the drum on their own.
Anti-Price Gouging Laws Hurt Consumers. DATE: August 27, 2007. BACKGROUND: In May, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act (H.R. 1252), which would make it illegal for gasoline providers to sell their product at unconscionably excessive prices when the President declares an energy emergency..
Price gouging. Price gouging Definition. The term price gouging refers to the phenomenon of sharply rising prices of items in (often temporary) high demand. It is semantically loaded with negative connotations against the merchants involved. However, according to Thomas Sowell's book, Basic Economics, high prices can instead be viewed as information for use in determining the best allocation of scarce resources for which there are multiple uses.