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[font "Comic Sans MS"][red][size 4]I hope everyone remembered that today we are protesting the GAS STATIONS for pulling this crap on us.[/size][/red][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][red][size 4]DO NOT FILL UP TODAY! A little late I am sure. but if you can, wait till tomorrow.[/size][/red][/font]
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Get my gas at Costco,they are always 5 cents cheaper,and during this last "price gouge",up to 25 cent cheaper a gallon that the local gouge marts.Been buying gas there for a while. I have seen what they do to take advantage of every event that might affect oil.
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Its those places like walkers maverik and etc... Those type of stations are everywhere !!They are the ones keeping the gas prices high because they can and are making a killing on their c-stores.If the public insists on paying higher gas prices keep buying from the c-stores that will show them how much we like the high gas prices.If their sales from their c-store dropped 50% or more they would drop those gas prices so fast!! But as always the public likes to bitch about something and not do anything about it.Two reasons to not but froma c-store.
1)You are lining the pockets of the gas owners givinh them no reason to lower gas prices.
2)You are over paying on everything they have to seel except for the few specials they have.
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The gouge marts near me have low gas prices because of costco
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Struggling with your logic. Why would they lower their prices because people stopped buying from their convenience stores?
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I'm not complaining. Diesel prices have dropped over a buck a gallon. Made it as high as 3.69 a gal and is currently around 2.50.
Maverick is the cheapest gas in town.
I still don't like the prices but they are much better than they were.
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I dont agree with you logic one bit, ther are some things that they mark up more then others but they dont inflate prices to astronomical leves. Yes they do have higher margains on c store good then they usually have on gas, but most markets struggle to survive. The main c store that you are drawing this conclusion from made most of their fortune from the integration of fast food restaurants into their stations.
Also i have to disagree with the logis because c stores both directly and indirectly support me and my whole familys way of life. The c stores need to make a profit to support the workers.
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Where you lose me is the assumption that if fewer items were purchased from the C store they would come to the conclusion that people are not purchasing from the C store because their gas prices are too high. Perhaps if it was an organized and well publized boycott.
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Thing that really jacks my jaws about the cost of diesel is this. Even though diesel is considerably cheaper to produce the oil companies have the diesel market right by the short hairs. Over 95% of diesel use is by companies that can't do without it. If the oil companies get their gasoline prices too high people tend to drive less & the sales of gasoline diminish. Not so with the diesel users. If they don't buy it they don't go, a lot of our commerce stops and the poor diesel users go broke.
I can remember working in a service station in my home town about 50 years ago when gasoline was 39.9 cents a gallon for regular and 43.9 cents for Ethyl. At that time diesel was around 17 cents a gallon.
Look around your home & see if you can find anything that wasn't at some point handled by a truck on its way to you. Shockingly I couldn't find a thing. Guess the oil companies gots a painful grip somewhere on all of us.
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THAT is exactly the problem. We NEED diesel. So, the law of supply and demand is, that the more need that exists, the higher the price will be. Unless the supply suddenly spikes (not likely), then the prices will stay high, because if you can't do without something, you will pay the high price for it even if it sucks.
Really the same goes for gasoline. We still gotta get to work, school, church, leisure activities (fishing, hunting, whatever). So, unless we can find a way to get there without using gasoline, we NEED gas. So, as much as you and I and everyone else hates it, we NEED it and they know it. So, I don't see us ever getting out of this problem until we find a way to use alternative fuels effectively and on a mass scale.
Sucks.
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