Gas Gouge

It's not gouging if there's other folks selling -- then it's either cleverly taking advantage of people's buying habits, or stupidly pissing off your customers.

Either way, the market takes care of the details.

Idnat what Greenspan said?? Heh, I wonder exactly what "details" he was talking about.... colonospical details, methinks.

Speaking of colonoscopies, gas here in Le Rotten Apple (NYC) is about $3.50.

Two good points...

That .03 "discount card" in action?

CaveLamb used his keyboard to write :

Wot's your real problem?

Thats just over half what it costs in Australia and even ours is low compared to some countries.

Try £1.40 per LITRE! here in the UK currently. If I recall correctly, ~85% of that is tax.

JB

There are things for which the market should remain free, and things for which it should be regulated. If a few gas stations gouge their customers, and some don't, then the market will correct things. If an entire industry adopts policies that are going to have severe economic repercussions (say, for example, that the oil industry had a history of bankrupting itself and leaving the nation without a fuel supply) then either the the US government will step in earlier, or the Chinese government, in the form of it's army, will do so later.

That's not even bringing up the markets that every republican wants to strictly regulate, but never calls it a 'regulated market'. (Recreational drugs, prostitution, rounding up your kids and selling them -- these are all markets that are tightly regulated, yet that's not how folks talk about them).

LOL

Well, the "market" regulated itself today.

Now everybody is charging 2.99...

Agree 100%. Except I think there is deep and insidious sinistry beneath all this. Greenspan: But.... but... but...... I.... I.... I..... th-th-th-thought market self-regulation was a GOOD idea!!!!! I-I-I-I d-d-d-didn't knowwwwww........

Fukn asshole.... he shoulda stuck to his clarinet....

Oh, the station I called Murphy about last night - dropped it's price to $2.95 today.

Huh!

In latest developments, Generalimiso Franko is still dead!

$3.189 here.

When a walmart came to the town I work in, Murphy drove down the price the other gas stations were charging. Then after a year or so, it was part of the band of thieves. All they did was divvy up the suckers.

Wes

Perth, Western Australia

Unleaded $1.32 litre = $5.02 per US mini gallon $6.01 per real Imperial gallon

LPG 71.5c litre = $2.72 per US mini gallon $3.25 per real Imperial gallon

My '93 Nissan Patrol runs 99% of the time on LPG. Only on petrol when I run out of LPG or about 10 km once per month to operate fuel pump and prevent seals /diaphragm from drying out.

Alan

Do they add 10% ethanol (Soon to be 15%)?

Not here, thank goodness. I believe that east of the Nullarbor some parts of the country have ethanol added. Yuk.

My Patrol is thirsty enough already without ethanol adding about

Most of our wheat is exported, about 95%, in competition with subsidised wheat from the USA and there is none left to waste on ethanol production.

Many years ago my ex employer used to buy in ethanol for use as race car fuel. It was a by-product from charcoal manufacture which was used in a relatively low volume cast iron smelter.

Alan

"We" make ethanol from corn, not wheat.

I think you mean methanol?

You are right.

We also bought ethanol, cannot remember where from - it was 46 years ago.

Alan