September 23, 2005
This morning, my wife called me on her way to work to let me know that a certain gas station in our area was priced at $2.54 a gallon. Across the street is another station that we occasionally use, priced at $2.59. Anticipating a rise in prices, I gassed up the truck at the cheaper place.
This afternoon my wife noticed that the first place had raised prices by a penny, to $2.55 a gallon. Meanwhile, all the way across the street, the other place jumped prices by twenty cents.
I haven't a clue. Maybe their distributor is sticking it to them and they're just passing along the price increase. I can believe that because their prices are insanely volatile compared to most brands in the area, and they're not always more expensive than everywhere else. But if they're trying to take advantage, they're the dumbest businessmen on the planet, because people remember stuff like that, and I'll bet that even when prices stabilize again their business will be down.
We tend to have cheap gas in this area compared to most. What's a gallon going for in your burg?
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Posted by: Tuning Spork at September 23, 2005 08:12 PM (wza9/)
The cheaper guy across the street will do a bombing business and very soon will need to refill his tanks and his price will go up too.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin at September 23, 2005 08:41 PM (ics4u)
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Posted by: CGHill at September 24, 2005 12:45 PM (tEfsQ)
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