Gas Gougers Testing the Water?

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CharlesW

The Rainmaker
In the last 24 hours, gas prices here have gone as low as $1.77, jumped up to $1.92 and now are all over the board. Anywhere from $1.77 through the $1.79, $1.84, $1.89. Evidently they were selling too much gas at $1.77 so they raised it until people quit buying and then started back down a little at a time. $1.89 is pretty typical, but several stations are still a $1.77 and even a few at $2.02.
Think it has anything to do with "What the traffic will bear"?
At least they aren't all exactly the same price.
 
CharlesW said:
In the last 24 hours, gas prices here have gone as low as $1.77, jumped up to $1.92 and now are all over the board. Anywhere from $1.77 through the $1.79, $1.84, $1.89. Evidently they were selling too much gas at $1.77 so they raised it until people quit buying and then started back down a little at a time. $1.89 is pretty typical, but several stations are still a $1.77 and even a few at $2.02.
Think it has anything to do with "What the traffic will bear"?
At least they aren't all exactly the same price.
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My local gas station has lowered his almost 40 cents in the last week..we are still above 2 bucks here...but if you shop around you can get it close to 2 bucks
 
the lowest in the area is $2.49 (cash) so there is still a ways to go by me before i see those numbers you people are talking about
 
still running in the $2.28 a gallon here in wv...
the sad thing is that it almost seems cheap for gas now, even @ over $2 a gallon!! lol
 
I drove by two gas stations on opposite sides of the street yesterday. One was a Chevron at $1.99 for low grade unleaded (crappy 85 octane) and the other was Tesoro at $2.19 for low grade unleaded. Both stations had cars filling up. Seriously now... Why wouldn't you cross the street to save twenty cents a gallon? I still kick myself that I paid $2.25 on Monday night to fillup and then the prices dropped twenty six cents in two days. Luckily I only put ten gallons in, so the savings was really less than a couple bottles of Coke in the vending machine at work, but still... It is like losing money on the penny slots in a casino. Sure it is only pennies, but it is the principle of getting screwed out of money.
 
.84 cents!!!! (In Canada, a liter)
I tell you, you yanks got it cheap...just wish you'd get your oil someplace else! :)
 
About two weeks ago crude oil jumped nearly ten bucks a barrel for a couple days then came back down.
The increase in price should be temporary.
I bought gas yesterday and using my marathon card with the rebate I paid $165.9 for 87 octane.
 
black bart said:
About two weeks ago crude oil jumped nearly ten bucks a barrel for a couple days then came back down.
The increase in price should be temporary.
I bought gas yesterday and using my marathon card with the rebate I paid $165.9 for 87 octane.
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Yes, but the same week you paid $3.49 a gallon for kerosene, I paid $4.99.
I truly believe that the prices are based on what the traffic will bear rather than a true cost/profit margin. :wall
I guess I should just be happy that;
1. The products are available.
2. That I am able to pay for them.
:bigups
 
These cheap prices make me want to go out and buy a performance v8 car but I'm holding just my luck when I buy gas prices will double.
 
It is cheap enough for me to like to drive my Dakota 4x4 on a more regular basis again to work (usually at least once per week). It gets around 15mpg so it can drink the gas.
 
I just saw gas @ $2.29. I just wonder how long the prices will stay this way or will they start going back up
 
CharlesW said:
It really doesn't follow much of a pattern.
It's back down to $1.77 and $1.79 most places tonight.
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Charles did you read my post in

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Today oil rose a little but the gas price will follow the oil price but it will be a few weeks behind because what is bought today will not be at your station for several weeks.
What don't make sense is 20 cents difference in the same town on the same day.
 
black bart said:
Charles did you read my post in

#11 (permalink)
Today oil rose a little but the gas price will follow the oil price but it will be a few weeks behind because what is bought today will not be at your station for several weeks.
What don't make sense is 20 cents difference in the same town on the same day.
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Yep, sure did. :)
Very little of it makes any sense to me.
Oil goes up, gas goes up. I understand so far.
Oil goes down, gas goes up. That's when they lose me.
When gas goes up, it goes up 10 to 40 cents in one day.
When gas comes down, it comes down 10 cents a week or less.
Like I keep saying, whatever the traffic will bear.
 
CharlesW said:
Yep, sure did. :)
Very little of it makes any sense to me.
Oil goes up, gas goes up. I understand so far.
Oil goes down, gas goes up. That's when they lose me.
When gas goes up, it goes up 10 to 40 cents in one day.
When gas comes down, it comes down 10 cents a week or less.
Like I keep saying, whatever the traffic will bear.
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Many things are whatever the market will bear.

I remember looking for tires a few years ago.
I checked by me and by where I worked (a more affluent area) the price by my work was almost $10 more per tire for the same tire from a chain store.
needless to say I got the tires by my house but asked why there was a price difference and the manager said "they could afford to pay more there" :wow:
 
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