there is a delta sonic car wash near my job, and there is a supermarket on the other side of my job....now here's the story. delta sonic promises to keep their gas prices 2 cents lower than the lowest gas price within a mile. the market just put a gas station in their lot, and they have the same guarantee....all week long they've been battling. now, here in ny state, gas is 209 a gal. well, the 2 battling gas stations are now down to 160 a gallon, and dropping.................if they can do that, stands to reason that we've been taken to the cleaners by all gas dealers, because this proves that the prices just dont have to be that high.............and, its a bipartisan screwing

Ahhhh, a gas war. Long time since I have heard of one of those.
Sure we have been screwed by the fuel companies, and I might add, with the blessing of our governments.

As a young man I personally saw gas wars get as low as 25 cents a gallon.

Originally posted by korg
there is a delta sonic car wash near my job, and there is a supermarket on the other side of my job....now here's the story. delta sonic promises to keep their gas prices 2 cents lower than the lowest gas price within a mile. the market just put a gas station in their lot, and they have the same guarantee....all week long they've been battling. now, here in ny state, gas is 209 a gal. well, the 2 battling gas stations are now down to 160 a gallon, and dropping.................if they can do that, stands to reason that we've been taken to the cleaners by all gas dealers, because this proves that the prices just dont have to be that high.............and, its a bipartisan screwing

Damn, we need one of those Delta stores down here in the south !
I want to see the good ole days of .98 a gallon ! :D

in california thee is almost 50 cents a gallon in taxes, if we droppes some of that gas price would drop pretty quick too.

Originally posted by korg
if they can do that, stands to reason that we've been taken to the cleaners by all gas dealers, because this proves that the prices just dont have to be that high.............and, its a bipartisan screwing

Not necessarily - they might be willing to take a short term loss on the product to generate other business or just to drive the other guys out of business. For instance, most gas stations regularly sell milk for less than it costs them to get people to buy gas and to get people in the store, where they might buy other stuff.

Originally posted by LionelHutz
Not necessarily - they might be willing to take a short term loss on the product to generate other business or just to drive the other guys out of business. For instance, most gas stations regularly sell milk for less than it costs them to get people to buy gas and to get people in the store, where they might buy other stuff. agreed....but i guess i dont have that kind of faith in people being fair. caes in point, we had a blackout in most of ny state because of something. it spread through a few states. people were thinking that it was a terrorist act, and because of that, some gas stations started raising gas prices. the news went to one guy, who had raised his price to 3 DOLLARS A GAL. the news man ask him why he raised his prices, and so high......the guy responded, i thought we were attacked. the news guy asked him what that had to do with his raising the gas price, the guy ran out of the camera and halted the interview......people are sleazy when it comes to money

Gas wars. What a blast from the past. That brings back memories of "full service", something almost unheard of today. Lowest I ever paid was $0.189/gallon for premium. Normally the price was .299 for reg or .319 for premium, all leaded gas.

Originally posted by Travh20
in california thee is almost 50 cents a gallon in taxes, if we droppes some of that gas price would drop pretty quick too.
Taxes on gas should be raised not lowered, even in California. Higher gas prices will induce the market to begin to develop consumer electric-powered and hydrogen-powered automobiles, whichever proves most cost-efficient.

Taxes on gas should be raised not lowered

Agreed, it's a voluntary tax. Also, it punishes the drivers that pollute the environment the most, along with the other evils and costs associated with driving a lot. As Borg pointed out, it would encourage the development of alternate sources of fuel, too. Gas tax is actually a great tax.

And this post is probably from the most anti-tax poster on this board.

They're losing money. Both of them. I've had clients in the C-Store business. People are creatures of habbit and the C-Store owners try to get people into the habbit of stopping in their store.

Three or four weeks of low gas prices usually does the trick. Then they'll start colluding like the rest of the C stores do.

Two other points... the government makes a shitload off of gas taxes.

AND, if you hate the evil oil companies so much, STOP BUYING GAS.