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by mikeyouse 4437 days ago
This sounds close to what you're describing (warning, Valleywag):

http://valleywag.gawker.com/uber-forced-driver-shortage-to-b...

But Uber recruited new drivers for UberX, and then intentionally prevented them from driving on Valentine's day so that surge pricing would come into effect.