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Gas Price Robbery!!
Us 71 4 March 2005 10:18:13
	Gas in Fayetteville, AR went up to $1.999 today for Regular No-Lead, up 10 cents from yesterday. The clerk at the station said the price was liable to go up another 10 cents over the weekend. Meanwhile, up in Springdale (6 miles away) the price dropped from $1.869 to $1.829 today (same brand) and the clerk there told me the price could go down another couple pennies. It looks like whoever is controlling gas distribution in Fayetteville is making himself a tidy profit.
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Gk 4 March 2005 10:27:43 [ permanent link ]
	US 71 wrote:> Gas in Fayetteville, AR went up to $1.999 today for Regular No-Lead, up 10 > cents from yesterday. The clerk at the station said the price was liable to > go up another 10 cents over the weekend.> Meanwhile, up in Springdale (6 miles away) the price dropped from $1.869 > to $1.829 today (same brand) and the clerk there told me the price could go > down another couple pennies.> It looks like whoever is controlling gas distribution in Fayetteville is > making himself a tidy profit.> New Jersey has been running about $1.69 to $1.70 at the 'discount' stations lately. GK
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John A. Weeks III 4 March 2005 10:48:00 [ permanent link ]
	In article <F4TVd.807$cN6.729@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>, "US 71" <us71@earthlink.net> wrote: Gas in Fayetteville, AR went up to $1.999 today for Regular No-Lead, up 10 > cents from yesterday. The clerk at the station said the price was liable to > go up another 10 cents over the weekend.> Meanwhile, up in Springdale (6 miles away) the price dropped from $1.869 > to $1.829 today (same brand) and the clerk there told me the price could go > down another couple pennies.> It looks like whoever is controlling gas distribution in Fayetteville is > making himself a tidy profit. Here in Minnesota, were were in the $1.70's last week. Everyone is pretty much went to $2.09 this afternoon. That is a new record high for this area. BTW, I drove past an intersection in Richfield, MN, this afternoon. The BP station was $2.09, but the other two stations on the corner were still at $1.86. I saw people at the BP station filling up. What this means to me is that while people like to talk about gas prices, many people will not even bother to cross the street to save 23 cents a gallon. -john- -- ====================================================================== John A. Weeks III 952-432-2708 john@johnweeks.com Newave Communications http://www.johnweeks.com ======================================================================
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Steve 4 March 2005 10:51:49 [ permanent link ]
	US 71 wrote: Gas in Fayetteville, AR went up to $1.999 today for Regular No-Lead, up 10 > cents from yesterday. The clerk at the station said the price was liable to > go up another 10 cents over the weekend.> Meanwhile, up in Springdale (6 miles away) the price dropped from $1.869 > to $1.829 today (same brand) and the clerk there told me the price could go > down another couple pennies.> It looks like whoever is controlling gas distribution in Fayetteville is > making himself a tidy profit.> I heard a rumor that gas up here is going up 25 cents over the weekend. It's not just Fayetteville. -- Steve Civil Engineering (Course 1) at MIT
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William Lynch 4 March 2005 11:08:59 [ permanent link ]
	in article F4TVd.807$cN6.729@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net, US 71 at us71@earthlink.net wrote on 3/3/05 10:18 PM: Gas in Fayetteville, AR went up to $1.999 today for Regular No-Lead, up 10> cents from yesterday. The clerk at the station said the price was liable to> go up another 10 cents over the weekend.> Meanwhile, up in Springdale (6 miles away) the price dropped from $1.869> to $1.829 today (same brand) and the clerk there told me the price could go> down another couple pennies.> It looks like whoever is controlling gas distribution in Fayetteville is> making himself a tidy profit. A month ago the cheap places in the Bay Area were around $1.749. Today the cheapest is at $2.079.
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Jack May 4 March 2005 11:26:40 [ permanent link ]
	"william lynch" <x@y.z> wrote in message news:BE4D497F.275F%x@y.z...> in article F4TVd.807$cN6.729@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net, US 71 at> us71@earthlink.net wrote on 3/3/05 10:18 PM:> Gas in Fayetteville, AR went up to $1.999 today for Regular No-Lead, up >> 10>> cents from yesterday. The clerk at the station said the price was liable >> to>> go up another 10 cents over the weekend.>> Meanwhile, up in Springdale (6 miles away) the price dropped from >> $1.869>> to $1.829 today (same brand) and the clerk there told me the price could >> go>> down another couple pennies.>> It looks like whoever is controlling gas distribution in Fayetteville is>> making himself a tidy profit.> A month ago the cheap places in the Bay Area were around $1.749. Today> the cheapest is at $2.079. Yes I am paying somewhere around $2.20 in the Bay Area. I don't pay much attention to the price because not buying gas means not working which is a loss of a lot more money than the cost of gas.
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Me 4 March 2005 12:44:00 [ permanent link ]
	"US 71" <us71@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:F4TVd.807$cN6.729@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...> Gas in Fayetteville, AR went up to $1.999 today for Regular No-Lead, up 10> cents from yesterday. The clerk at the station said the price was liable go up another 10 cents over the weekend.> Meanwhile, up in Springdale (6 miles away) the price dropped from $1.869> to $1.829 today (same brand) and the clerk there told me the price could down another couple pennies.> It looks like whoever is controlling gas distribution in Fayetteville is> making himself a tidy profit. here in Michigan, the local Shell had regular up to $2.159 this afternoon, with premium at $2.339. Don't know if I've ever seen it that high here. The Flying J across the street hadn't jacked up the price yet, they were still at $1.969 or so for regular.
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Emi M Briet 4 March 2005 19:40:15 [ permanent link ]
	In article <john-B1BAC0.00480004032005@ip-lcc.supernews.net>, "John A. Weeks III" <john@johnweeks.com> wrote: Here in Minnesota, were were in the $1.70's last week. Everyone> is pretty much went to $2.09 this afternoon. That is a new record> high for this area. The SA on 34th and 51st in Nokomis was up to $2.199 for one day last June (they lowered it to $2.099 the next day because the Mobil down the street only raised their price up to $2.099..I notice that between those two stations, SA will price-match Mobil within a day if Mobil is lower)...that's the highest I've yet seen. BTW, I drove past an intersection in Richfield, MN, this afternoon.> The BP station was $2.09, but the other two stations on the corner> were still at $1.86. I saw people at the BP station filling up.> What this means to me is that while people like to talk about> gas prices, many people will not even bother to cross the street> to save 23 cents a gallon. Even during last summer when most places were up above $2/gal, I've still been able to keep my streak of not paying $2/gal for 87-octane gas (I've paid as much as $1.999 though). I have yet to see Sam's Club go above $2/gal...
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Mark Roberts 4 March 2005 20:38:33 [ permanent link ]
	US 71 <us71@earthlink.net> had written: \| \| It looks like whoever is controlling gas distribution in Fayetteville is \| making himself a tidy profit. \| It's probably national: <http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/04/BUGH1BK1N41.DTL> -- Mark Roberts \| "Never do math on television." Oakland, Cal.\| -- KTVU meteorologist Bill Martin, January 3, 2005 NO HTML MAIL \| Permission to archive this article in any form is hereby explicitly denied.
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Richard 4 March 2005 21:49:49 [ permanent link ]
	On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 06:18:13 GMT US 71 wrote: Gas in Fayetteville, AR went up to $1.999 today for Regular No-Lead, up 10> cents from yesterday. The clerk at the station said the price was liable> to go up another 10 cents over the weekend.> Meanwhile, up in Springdale (6 miles away) the price dropped from $1.869> to $1.829 today (same brand) and the clerk there told me the price could> go down another couple pennies.> It looks like whoever is controlling gas distribution in Fayetteville is> making himself a tidy profit.> Locally prices raised a nickle this week. I've said it before. There's only one place in the chain of events where price fixing is most likely to take place. At the point of sales. The price for a crude barrel of oil is locked in months in advance. The refiners know in advance how much it's gonna cost them to produce it. The trucking companies charge the same price for delivery week after week. So who's the culprit? The managers of the service stations. There is a liittle known organization called "The retail gasoline dealers association". I have always had a sneakin hunch that these people control the actual sales price. Let's face it, You go to your favorite dealer one day and buy gas at one price. Two days later the price increases. Three days later the price decreases. Did they have a delivery of fuel during this time? Noooooo. Fuel is just another product they sell. You go in and buy something at one price one day, two days later it's another price. Do you complain about it? Noooooo. Everybody bitches and whines about fuel prices, yet hardly anybody bitches about the fact that the price of a gallon of milk is outrageous! Yet here you are paying $4 a gallon for milk without a word. A few years ago, some enterprising soul in Arizona decided he wanted more profit from cigarrette sales. So he adds a dollar to the pack. This little idea became a mainstay of a way of doing business. I smoke so I know who has the cheaper prices. As a trucker, we get royally ripped off from truckstops on cigarrettes. Locally, I pay $2.50 for a pack. At a truckstop in Portage, Wi.? $4.15 for the same pack. Needless to say, I don't do business with them. Want a royal ripoff? Try buying a screw for your washer machine from a parts warehouse. $3.50. When the same screw can be purchased at your local hardware store for 50 cents or less. And another thing about fuel. Did you know that less than 50% is imported? So why does the minority dictate what the cost will be?
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Darryl 5 March 2005 00:33:55 [ permanent link ]
	Richard wrote: Let's face it, You go to your favorite dealer one day and buy gas at price.> Two days later the price increases.> Three days later the price decreases.> Did they have a delivery of fuel during this time? Noooooo.> Fuel is just another product they sell.> You go in and buy something at one price one day, two days later it's> another price.> Do you complain about it? Noooooo. Grocery prices don't fluctuate like gas prices do. I think if the price of ANYTHING that was essential to our daily living fluctuated like gas prices do, people would be upset. It's the uncertainty of the whole system that makes consumers nervous. Suppose your electric bill was $50 one month, & $300 the next. Or milk was $1.75 one day, $2.56 the next, and $0.30 the next day. As you said, it's the same batch of gas, they could average out the price, they KNOW what it's going to cost, so why keep changing it? The post office seems to be able to price their stamps YEARS in advance; what if postage stamps fluctuated every WEEK like gasoline? I suspect a lot of it is that the uncertainty that is generated by price fluctuations allows gasoline TRADERS to make money; artificial shortages are good for business.
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Mike Tantillo 5 March 2005 04:08:03 [ permanent link ]
	At a gas station in Fuquay-Varina, NC, there was a price that was set to be near to or match its competitors. Then Sheetz comes along and posts its prices at 25 cents a gallon less than its neighbors. Some gas stations weren't happy, and it wasn't Sheetz...their lines were 5 cars deep! US 71 wrote:> Gas in Fayetteville, AR went up to $1.999 today for Regular No-Lead, up 10> cents from yesterday. The clerk at the station said the price was liable to> go up another 10 cents over the weekend.> Meanwhile, up in Springdale (6 miles away) the price dropped from $1.869> to $1.829 today (same brand) and the clerk there told me the price could go> down another couple pennies.> It looks like whoever is controlling gas distribution in Fayetteville is > making himself a tidy profit.
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The Etobian 5 March 2005 04:36:43 [ permanent link ]
	On 4 Mar 2005 12:33:55 -0800, "Darryl" <DarrylJ@yahoo.com> wrote: Grocery prices don't fluctuate like gas prices do. I think if the>price of ANYTHING that was essential to our daily living fluctuated>like gas prices do, people would be upset. It's the uncertainty of the>whole system that makes consumers nervous. You're right. As prices paid to dairy farmers hit a 25-year low a couple of years ago, supermarkets kept charging 3 to 4 bucks a gallon. Funny how they were kept at an all-time high on the retail level. I heard the wholesale spike in tomato prices lasted only a few weeks. Supermarkets around SE Mass. STILL charge 2 bucks a pound, while farmers in Florida face plummeting prices and poor sales. Someone ought to inform the supermarkets: the free-market system works as long as you don't put up roadblocks.
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ParrotRob 5 March 2005 05:19:13 [ permanent link ]
	"US 71" <us71@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:F4TVd.807$cN6.729@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...> Gas in Fayetteville, AR went up to $1.999 today for Regular No-Lead, up 10 > cents from yesterday. The clerk at the station said the price was liable > to go up another 10 cents over the weekend.> Meanwhile, up in Springdale (6 miles away) the price dropped from $1.869 > to $1.829 today (same brand) and the clerk there told me the price could > go down another couple pennies.> It looks like whoever is controlling gas distribution in Fayetteville is > making himself a tidy profit. So buy it somewhere else. It's called a Market Economy - if they're able to charge that much, then someone must be buying it.
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William Lynch 5 March 2005 09:32:55 [ permanent link ]
	in article 1109968435.752435.155670@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, Darryl at DarrylJ@yahoo.com wrote on 3/4/05 12:33 PM: Richard wrote:> Let's face it, You go to your favorite dealer one day and buy gas at> one>> price.>> Two days later the price increases.>> Three days later the price decreases.>> Did they have a delivery of fuel during this time? Noooooo.>> Fuel is just another product they sell.>> You go in and buy something at one price one day, two days later it's>> another price.>> Do you complain about it? Noooooo.> Grocery prices don't fluctuate like gas prices do. I think if the> price of ANYTHING that was essential to our daily living fluctuated> like gas prices do, people would be upset. It's the uncertainty of the> whole system that makes consumers nervous.> Suppose your electric bill was $50 one month, & $300 the next. Or milk> was $1.75 one day, $2.56 the next, and $0.30 the next day. As you> said, it's the same batch of gas, they could average out the price,> they KNOW what it's going to cost, so why keep changing it? The post> office seems to be able to price their stamps YEARS in advance; what if> postage stamps fluctuated every WEEK like gasoline?> I suspect a lot of it is that the uncertainty that is generated by> price fluctuations allows gasoline TRADERS to make money; artificial> shortages are good for business. Our electric bill was $50 one month and $300 the next. Welcome to deregulation.
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Gk 5 March 2005 20:34:42 [ permanent link ]
	GK wrote:> US 71 wrote:> Gas in Fayetteville, AR went up to $1.999 today for Regular No-Lead, >> up 10 cents from yesterday. The clerk at the station said the price >> was liable to go up another 10 cents over the weekend.>> Meanwhile, up in Springdale (6 miles away) the price dropped from >> $1.869 to $1.829 today (same brand) and the clerk there told me the >> price could go down another couple pennies.>> It looks like whoever is controlling gas distribution in Fayetteville >> is making himself a tidy profit.>> New Jersey has been running about $1.69 to $1.70> at the 'discount' stations lately.> GK Well last night I paid $1.79 in NJ, so it is creeping up a bit. GK
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Nick C 6 March 2005 05:24:08 [ permanent link ]
	"Steve" <smalpert@hackmit.edu> wrote in message news:42280524$0$559$b45e6eb0@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu...> US 71 wrote:> Gas in Fayetteville, AR went up to $1.999 today for Regular No-Lead, up >> 10 cents from yesterday. The clerk at the station said the price was >> liable to go up another 10 cents over the weekend.>> Meanwhile, up in Springdale (6 miles away) the price dropped from >> $1.869 to $1.829 today (same brand) and the clerk there told me the price >> could go down another couple pennies.>> It looks like whoever is controlling gas distribution in Fayetteville is >> making himself a tidy profit.>> I heard a rumor that gas up here is going up 25 cents over the weekend. > It's not just Fayetteville.> -- > Steve> Civil Engineering (Course 1) at MIT> I heard that rumor too. Prices jumped a dime in the last few days in Pittsburgh. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/04/national/main678055.shtml
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