Posted on 08/30/2006 5:48:35 PM PDT by kellynla
There are always good reasons for filling the tanks. I was making a comment on the impact a consumer action could have.
Shalom.
I'm talking about forty and fifty cent a gallon differences between Fredericksburg and Alexandria Va. which are forty miles apart.
I work in Herndon and I've noticed some of those differences.
There's a lot that can go into the pricing of a gallon of gas at the pump. From what I understand, the actual station owner makes very little off the gas - the money's in the stuff inside the store. It could be more expensive to get the gas to Alexandria. It could be that real-estate is higher in Alexandria which increases the owner's overhead. And it could also be that there aren't enough people in Alexandria who drive to Fredricksburg to buy their gas so the Alexandria stations don't compete with them. If people will pay it, the station owners will charge it.
I will drive a long way to save $.10/gallon, if for no other reason than to try to create pricing pressure on the more expensive stations. But I'm constantly amazed that a name-brand station next to a no-name station is $.05 to $.10 more and still has lines at the pumps. I can't understand most people paying the additional $.05. I know the marketing teams will tell me there is a difference, but I've never felt it.
Shalom.
it just dipped below $3 in NY.
While I do think they'd like to do something bigger, the terrorists don't seem to be interested in things that are really expensive. They've shown a habit of using ready-made materials to carry out their attacks like cars, planes, IEDs, cell phone detonators, suicide belts -- things that are relatively cheap for the amount of damage done.
The point is that whatever they'd like to do, you can be sure it could be done with a lot less money than what can be had with $3.50 gas.
3.14 for regular in Inlet NY
3.14?
you need this link! LOL
New Yawk gas prices.com
http://gasbuddy.com/gb_region.aspx?region=NY
We were in Louisville this afternoon and passed a SuperAmerica with gas at $2.35!
yep, looks like the Bluegrass region is leading the way.
and they certainly could hit 2 dollars by Thanksgiving.
http://www.louisvillegasprices.com/
what surprises me is that historically,
gas prices didn't start to fall until after the Labor Day weekend.
I just wish Congress & the Bush administration would get on the stick and start passing laws that would allow more drilling, ethanol, coal, nuclear, whatever we can to get off the foreign oil dependence.
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