Let’s imagine a road trip. You’re driving on a high way with nothing but nature on both sides of you. You look down at your dashboard and notice that your car needs gas, and needs it now. Approaching in the distance, amidst this sea of absolute nothing, is a gas station. Only one, and not another for miles and miles to come. The gas station sits there, alone, and you, the driver of this car running quickly towards empty, are left with no choice but to pull into the station and fill the car up.
Gas here was expensive, unfair even.