Gas Prices

GreyPawsGreyPaws Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8659Members
<div class="IPBDescription">And the effect of lowering them</div> Wow man.. at 2:30pm (pacific) I lowered the prices on 2 of our gas stations from

2.09 (87)
2.19 (89)
2.29(91) (California Los Angeles 90032 zip to be exact) to

1.99(87)
2.09(89)
2.19(91)

we(2 SHELL stations) are about 6-8 cents lower than everyone else (except ARCO they are the same as us) in the local area, man youd think this was a hot spot for a riot. We have 12 pumps (at my current location) 85% of them have been busy for the last 4 hours. we sold about 2000 gallons of 87 ontop of what we sold this morning, this is madness.. my delivery wont come till tomorrow after 4pm and my pumps shut off at 800 gallons. current volume on 87 is 3900 we do about 3200 per day... its guna be close, hopefully the rest of the neighborhood drops prices so the demand on us is a bit slower...

you'd think we were giving this stuff away

Comments

  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    It's 2.35 for me....It cost me 40 dollars to fill up ONE tank....it's a conspiracy!!
  • GreyPawsGreyPaws Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8659Members
    are you on the west coast? Cause if you are then it is a conspiracy... 4 refineries went down to 40% capacity 3 weeks before the long weekend for unscheduled Maintenance (CA Energy crisis anyone?) and they went back up last night (thats why we dropped prices) after it was announced that the energy department would investigate the price hike.
  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    <---- West coast <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->


    It cost me 80 dollars to fill up both tanks...and I use them within 2 weeks!!! My damn truck gets 8 miles to the gallon. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Anti-BombAnti-Bomb Join Date: 2003-08-09 Member: 19280Members
    1.93 in NYC

    They should decrease because of all the oil in Iraq.
  • NumbersNotFoundNumbersNotFound Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7556Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Anti-Bomb+Sep 5 2003, 09:28 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Anti-Bomb @ Sep 5 2003, 09:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 1.93 in NYC

    They should decrease because of all the oil in Iraq. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    In about... 5-8 years...


    They still have to get all the refineries, and fields up and running at 100% again.
  • GreyPawsGreyPaws Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8659Members
    its not even at pre war levels yet <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Anti-BombAnti-Bomb Join Date: 2003-08-09 Member: 19280Members
    edited September 2003
    <span style='color:red'>** Nuked** Please spare us the teenangst rhetoric and confine that to the discussion forums. This will be your only warning before account suspension.</span>
  • NumbersNotFoundNumbersNotFound Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7556Members
    I'm pretty sure that right now the oil fields are more protected than the cities.
  • MrPinkMrPink Join Date: 2002-05-28 Member: 678Members
    A while back when gas prices were a bit high a gas station at my corner gave away free gas for a day, but unfortunatly we were going to Mexico at the time. We turned on the news and saw pictures though...even in Mexico.
  • kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
    64 cents over here in Canada...
  • CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
    haha there is no shortage, and I dont care what anyone says but its price gouging to make money, simple as that.
  • CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
    edited September 2003
    <span style='color:red'>** Nuked** Please spare us the teenangst rhetoric and confine that to the discussion forums. This will be your only warning before account suspension.</span>
  • JefeJefe Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15734Members, Constellation
    1.66 a gallon, about 17 bucks a fill.

    Awwwww yeeeaaahhhh, 10 gallon 4 cylinder nissan road monster.

    ph33r
  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    Gah. Its only $1.50 here, but I'm still ****. Gas should be $0.75 at the absolute most.. not this 2x as much crap.

    One of the things Bush was criticized over with the Iraq situation was only going over there to take their oil. And you know what? At this point I wish that is what we went over there for. Yeah, outroot Saddam, take all their friggin oil, plant some WMD, but get the friggin oil. I want 50 cents gas again.
  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    Whoa

    You lot should try living in the UK.......
  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Venmoch+Sep 6 2003, 04:42 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Venmoch @ Sep 6 2003, 04:42 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Whoa

    You lot should try living in the UK....... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    My sentiments exactly.

    In the U.K we get taxed on petrol, with about 65% of the money we pay for petrol going to the government.

    We have a traffic problem, so the government tries to persuade us not to use our cars by increasing the petrol tax. Only problem is, the U.K has possibly THE WORST public transport system in the history of the universe. The trains don't go where you need them to go, they're always late, and they're always either overcrowded or dirty.

    As for the buses.... what busses? They don't go where you need them to either!

    I cycle to College. (that's high school to you)
  • Anti-BombAnti-Bomb Join Date: 2003-08-09 Member: 19280Members
    In NYC it's almost impossible to go to the city with a car, due to one factor no damn parking and the parking you do find is 15 dollars for an hour! So its just easier to take the train, it goes everywhere.
  • NumbersNotFoundNumbersNotFound Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7556Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--kida+Sep 5 2003, 10:28 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kida @ Sep 5 2003, 10:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 64 cents over here in Canada... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Dur?

    64 canadian cents is like... 50 cents american..

    You sure?

    /me remembers 89cent/gal prices when some place broke off of OPEC.
  • DarkDudeDarkDude Join Date: 2003-08-06 Member: 19088Members
    edited September 2003
    It's all from the damn oil companies, gas prices here in Omaha (w00t, cheap gas) went from 1.48 a gallon to over 1.70 in some cases, and all of that 2 days before the holiday weekend!

    And of course there were the lame excuses, oil refineries going down just days before the long weekend, is it just me or do the refineries always end up going down before holidays? Maybe they should fix that... The blackout in the Northeast causing them to lose power, shouldn't they have backup generators if they make all of that $$?

    I'm not complaining about the gas prices really,(though as DOOManiac said, it should be around a dollar a gallon, which begs the question, where is all of that Iraqi oil going?) but about how the oil companies seem to be able to operate on their own level, if THEY decide the gas prices need to go up, they go up. If they decide there's an oil shortage then, uh-oh, we're out of oil! Time to drill in Alaska some more, and since it's SO remote up there, double the price of gas again. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo--> The government really needs to step in now, though I don't doubt they are getting some "support" from the oil companies themselves.

    *P.S -Sorry for the conspiracy theory, just had to get that off my chest.- P.S*
  • kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
    Yes it is 64 cents here in Alberta, the oil king of all places in North America.

    Our province is the only province without pst and only gst...

    We rock, because we are richer than most provinces, that is why the government is jealous and thus they take our money, hence the western alienation.
  • TransmissionTransmission Join Date: 2003-03-12 Member: 14456Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--404NotFound+Sep 6 2003, 10:14 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (404NotFound @ Sep 6 2003, 10:14 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--kida+Sep 5 2003, 10:28 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kida @ Sep 5 2003, 10:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 64 cents over here in Canada... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Dur?

    64 canadian cents is like... 50 cents american..

    You sure?
    <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    64 cents per <b>litre</b>, not gallon, in Canada. That's why it seems so cheap.
  • Hida_TsuzuaHida_Tsuzua Lamarck&#39;s Heir Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 79Members, NS1 Playtester
    edited September 2003
    Gas is roughly 1.50 here. As for why gas prices are so high in certain areas, turn to the government. Taxes make up a decent part of the cost. Also places (notably CA and the Midwest) have special restrictions and guidelines that make the gas cost more (usually due to more work and a smaller market). In CA and other states, refineries along with power stations haven't been built since the 60's (meaning they're getting old and there aren't very many of them). Gas companies are in the odd sitution of being nearly the only industry that people like them to lose money while at the same time hate them to make money.

    Edit- Interesting Link <a href='http://www.howstuffworks.com/gas-price.htm' target='_blank'>Gas Prices</a>
  • GreyPawsGreyPaws Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8659Members
    welp its 1:10pm and we fargen sold out of 87.. just like I said.. we dont get a delivery till 4pm (or later !!) this sucks...
  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    1.50 per gallon in some places here in NJ...

    New Jersey -- oil refinery capital of the northeast! =P
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