How's your gas prices?

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by skcin

Yeah, how is your dad doing with all this? Some guy wrote to the paper here & was yelling about how come the stations raise their prices when they've already had the gas delievered & paid for.

How does it work, Riss? I want to write back & call him an idiot, but I want to get my facts straight!

Oh, and it's about $2.27 here last I checked.

No one is doing well--my parents included. The reason why gas stations raise their prices when they have a small surplus of gas is because that's the only way they're going to make any money at all--and even then sometimes you still don't. My father purchased a load last week--$1.80 something per gallon (he couldn't remember--he only knows it was "high, Maris"). He's currently selling it for $1.95. He's making way less than .10 per gallon.

We have a super Wawa down the street from us and a lot of foreign gas near us as well (and by "foreign," I think you all know what I mean. They bring their families over here to work on a visa--send them money back--sleep at the gas station and don't actually hold a residency). You simply CANNOT COMPETE with their prices--and even they are still high. Not to mention--the taxes for everything--the rules--it's ridiculous. I wish I could get him on here because he'd probably type a full out dissertation for you on the bull**** that is operating and owning your own.

As the demand for it increases, so will the price. It's a money maker alright but I can assure you, it's not the pockets of those in business for themselves getting lined.