belfert wrote: I remember once fueling in Wyoming or Nevada back when the going price of gas was $1.40 a gallon. We pulled off at the first exit once we hit a town as we needed gas. The station was charging $1.70 a gallon! They were taking advantage of the folks like us who needed gas and stopped at the first station they saw. The town had another exit further down the road and the stations there were charging $1.40.
Oh, I remember those days. Duluth stations are basically in price lockstep. According to Gasbuddy this morning most of the stations are at $3.64. Several are at $3.63 and one is at $3.59. Twenty miles away (north and west) prices are at least 5¢ a gallon cheaper.
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down home wrote: During the Regan Administration, only using this as a time reference, the EPA wit the help of the Oil industry changed fuel storage laws. Seems we suddenly had a national emergency almost of leaking steel tanks at gas stations. First change saw some independent stations go under. Second and third regulations were prohibitively expensive such as only certified outfits could dig a hole for the new fiberglass tanks or take out the old ones@big bucks. Banks were reluctant ot loan money to the small Independents because they didn't know what further regulations would come down ostensibly. Distributors threatened to pull their money from the banks if they loaned money to the Independents. Exxon was front and center. Fact not conjecture. I lost a bunch of small business clients. The Oil Companies own fuel top to bottom and do dictate the retail price now. Independents are rare. i have seen some that still managed to operate and prices were signifigantly lower. The upper Midwest, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan had a couple of big Distributors. Then Shell Distributor bought out the other one and prices skyrocketed and are still high. Tax increases on fuel didn't help. I get so mad I could cuss a blue streak about what the oil Mafia and others are doing to our Republic and us.
And who brought these guys to Washington and would not swear them in to tell the truth? I grew up in a family that owned a distributorship. Price fixing has occurred for years. They use to charge a higher tank wagon price to independents verses their company owned stations. Now years later they have gotten out of the retail end of it.
Talking about all those fiberglass tanks that went in to replace the rusted out metal tanks. The first round developed problems shortly. We drives would "drop" our sticks in the tanks and shortly hammered a hole in the bottom. They ended up installing a SS plate in the bottom where the measuring stick came down.
So don't trust anyone that stands before you and says, "put me in office and I will lower gas prices the first day", as that will not happen! These guys are driving the truck and there is no room in the cab for anyone to give them directions!
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We recently completed a trip to Chattanooga, Lynchburg, Tn and winding up in Biloxi, Mississippi. The cheapeast gas on the trip was in Biloxi at $3.279 and the most expensive was here at home at $3.469. Today, the prices at home are basically $3.359. Sure would like for it to come on down some more....
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sgt77 wrote: We just returned from a 10 day trip in our class A and were returning to Tampa. We were taking 19 South from the other side of Tallahassee where fuel was about $3.44 per gallon. As soon as we hit Perry, Cross City, and Chiefland, the prices ranged from $3.69 to $3.88 for regular. As soon as we got past these three little towns the price began to drop back towards the $3.40 range. Don't even want to mention the price of diesel.
Last week the Hi Sahara Oasis 50 miles west of Needles, CA was charging $5.39 per gallon, $4.89 in Needles, CA.
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Speaking of gouging...Regular is still $4.40 here in WA two miles from the Canadian border (currently the highest in the state according to morning news).
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sgt77 wrote: We just returned from a 10 day trip in our class A and were returning to Tampa. We were taking 19 South from the other side of Tallahassee where fuel was about $3.44 per gallon. As soon as we hit Perry, Cross City, and Chiefland, the prices ranged from $3.69 to $3.88 for regular. As soon as we got past these three little towns the price began to drop back towards the $3.40 range. Don't even want to mention the price of diesel.
Fl. has a hot line to report this type of thing. It is the dept of agriculture I think....
What exactly would one report???
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sgt77 wrote: We just returned from a 10 day trip in our class A and were returning to Tampa. We were taking 19 South from the other side of Tallahassee where fuel was about $3.44 per gallon. As soon as we hit Perry, Cross City, and Chiefland, the prices ranged from $3.69 to $3.88 for regular. As soon as we got past these three little towns the price began to drop back towards the $3.40 range. Don't even want to mention the price of diesel.
Fl. has a hot line to report this type of thing. It is the dept of agriculture I think....
What exactly would one report???
I was wondering the same thing...
If I had a gas station and in normal day to day operational economic times I thought I could charge as much as people want to pay. Please correct me if i'm wrong.
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Wouldn't call it gouging...In that case, Florida is gouging period because I paid 3.28 for regular this past weekend in Georgia and NC must be gouging because I paid 3.58 tonight. NC has higher gas taxes than the borderign state of SC. But although I paid 3.58 tonight, I could of gone to the next exit down that is 6 miles away and got it for 3.44 or gone 7 miles the other way and got it for 3.39. It's just the way they are doing business.
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There's apparently little we can do other than shop around. Talking to Washington is an exercise in futility.
Yes, we are being gouged. There is no way the supply reflects the prices, even with high taxes added in except California and Florida and other select type of states.
We had to curtail driving this month even Dr appointments.
The little car usually sees about 30 miles a week but only been out once this month.
Point is Americans have got to do something. This situation keeps escalating. Doesn't look like the ones orchestrating it will do any reversals. It will crash the economy sometime.
Since 09 most everything has doubled, at least for us.
Better be deciding what you can do or accept what they are doing. Most, of you or all, of you, are more qualified as Average Americans and have values not for sale than anyone currently in DC.
Hope that isn't too much of the p word.
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