-The price set by the stations—
The WHOLESALE price is set by the oil companies. The unfortunate station owners have to set their retail price to make any kind of profit. I’m not blaming *them*.
The price is set by consumer demand and production costs. Stations typically make penny’s per gallon.
I’ll say it again - where is it written that fuel has to be cheap or affordable???
How come we’re talking about gas prices on a liberal housing thug thread??? WTF??
The WHOLESALE price is set in the commodities market. You know all those traders that buy or sell based on weather, international tensions, refinery outages, etc.
And the profit per gallon of gas produced to Big Oil is ~$0.10. The tax load per gallon of gas purchased is ~$0.45. So who is gouging? Protest the TaxMan if you want to protest, not a company that is largely not in control of the price of its product.