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Aside from the obvious prices going up have you noticed the vast disparity in prices from place to place and from station to station.
On the same intersection I see $.21 difference between Shell and Sunoco??
By my house there is Citgo vs BP and again $.21 difference?
Now drive from town to town and it's nuts. In Melbourne Fl a middle income town the prices are (x), but drive to Vero Beach a much higher income town and the prices are actually slightly cheaper?????
Drive to Stuart FL and you think you are approaching California rapidly.
Drive to Jupiter Florida and you have arrived at California prices.
But continue south to Boca Raton Florida a very high income place and the prices are cheaper than Jupiter by at least $.10??
Gas and diesel are comodities.....yes, so how can there be as much as a $.40 differential with only an hours drive?
There has to be some fiddling with things going on here!
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Richard, it's retail...
If I were in the gasoline biz, and if I could squeeze a few more cents out a gallon of fuel at my pumps, I would.
The guys in my town stick together and we're around .04 cents higher than in Buffalo.
ticks me off, but I totally understand and would do the same thing.
100 feet away? That's not a few cents. Why anyone in their right mind would pay $8.00 more on a fill up when they could drive across the street is beyond me. Is $.8.00 going to kill me? Well you know that's not even coffee money to me but it's just the point of the thing.
Do you have pumps at your store?
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Too much junk/toys to mention, ever changing due to too getting bored too quickly. I need a 10 step program!
Want to call? I'm in the book. Want to argue....First explain the square root of negative one....lol
100 feet away? That's not a few cents. Why anyone in their right mind would pay $8.00 more on a fill up when they could drive across the street is beyond me.
I don't know but I have lots of friends that are "brand loyal" and will pay as much as 30 cents higher across the street. I am allways getting asked about "what brand is better" and my answer is allways what ever makes your truck go down the road the way you like it too for the cheapest. Could also be the use of PLASTIC..have one but not the other??
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To me, gas is gas.
I don't care which brand it is..
Same with diesel. I buy plenty of unbranded fuel from the Seneca Indian Reservation. I have for years, and I've never had a problem.
Saving .30 to .40 cents a gallon is nice too...
It doesn't make sense to me either,I paid 3.99 a Gallon last Friday at Walmart for Diesel,2 miles down the road at a Valero It was 4.29!
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Gas company credit cards is one reason. I used to see Shell stations offering a $0.10 per gallon using the card, and they were always at least that much higher than the competition (except for the independant station across the street). I never saw the logic in using a credit card for gas-why pay the outrageous price and then pay interest on top of it?
It's $4.19 at the gas station right across the street from my work. It's $4.49 at the station closest to my house. Now, work and home are 70 miles apart, but it ought to be pretty obvious where I buy mine. If I need fuel in the truck and I drive the car to work, I'm carrying a gas jug (or 2) to work with me.
I am with George, I find the closest cheapest place and fill up and forget about it. I have two or three "discount" fuel stops near me, like I said whichever is cheapest, I fill up, I could care less what brand, hell half the stuff comes out of the same line.
Uh, more insight into your personal habits than I needed to know.
Rhetorically? Well hope he was?
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Want to call? I'm in the book. Want to argue....First explain the square root of negative one....lol
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