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Just paid $2.79 in Colo.
I think gas is a bargain at prices below $4.
Not saying I don’t like cheap gas, but when you think about getting oil out of the ground, refining, additives, transporting it, etc, etc, it not very expensive.
Milk can go from udder to kitchen table in hours or a day or so and is far more expensive. I would sure like to see gas cheaper than milk. I can get milk for $1.69 to $1.85 in any local grocery for 1%, 2% or whole. 87 octane E10 regular gas is double that wherever I look. This is the first I have heard about the fiasco with the Russian pipeline. I bet heads will roll over that. So we have troubles in Venezuela, contaminated fuel in Russia, Iranian sanctions, and a recent major refinery fire in US. That sounds like a perfect storm to create world shortages and drive prices through the roof. All we need is a major hurricane to disrupt the Gulf Ports. Youre getting milk for $1.69 a GALLON? Wow, interesting!! Been right $3 a gallon in Tn for the last 20 yrs. Strange. Btw, gas is $2.59 here.
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Yes, everyday price at Walmart for years and years. Albertsons and all the independents are well below 3 bucks.
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Looks to me like they charge as much as they think they can get away with at the moment per location.
Well of course they do. Why shouldn’t they? What’s wrong with making money selling something that many, many people want to buy? Not "want". "HAVE". Paid 3.29 Costco Anchorage Friday Looks like about $3.45 here in Fairbanks today (on the street - not at Costco)
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"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston
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Looks to me like they charge as much as they think they can get away with at the moment per location.
Well of course they do. Why shouldn’t they? What’s wrong with making money selling something that many, many people want to buy? Not "want". "HAVE". Paid 3.29 Costco Anchorage Friday Looks like about $3.45 here in Fairbanks today (on the street - not at Costco) Living in Alaska is a choice. Fuel price too high? Move to Texas or better yet, NYC and ride a train.
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It's the time of year when they are switching to summer blends from winter blends, so they let stores at the refineries run down. Then, they spend some time cleaning and reprograming the production process before any new gasoline starts being produced. It scrambles prices, for sure, some more than others, depending on where in the U.S. you are and how much gas your local suppliers have on hand. Our local source here, in the middle of nowhere, is selling both gas and diesel for $3.15 per gallon. Up on the Interstate, both are going for around $2.75- $2.79. Over at the Texas border, the truck stops are all around $2.69. Saw a couple of places over in Deming yesterday getting $3.75! God only knows what it is going for up on the Navajo Reservation. 
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Just paid $2.79 in Colo.
I think gas is a bargain at prices below $4.
Not saying I don’t like cheap gas, but when you think about getting oil out of the ground, refining, additives, transporting it, etc, etc, it not very expensive.
Milk can go from udder to kitchen table in hours or a day or so and is far more expensive. To me comparing milk to gas prices is a apples to oranges thing in that milk/dairy products have government price supports, is regulated by FDA, has a limited 'shelf' life, requires constant refrigeration, ...and isn't subject to the federal, state, and in some areas, local taxes as gasoline and diesel is. ![[Linked Image]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Gas_Tax_Jpeg.jpg)
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Just paid $2.79 in Colo.
I think gas is a bargain at prices below $4.
Not saying I don’t like cheap gas, but when you think about getting oil out of the ground, refining, additives, transporting it, etc, etc, it not very expensive.
Milk can go from udder to kitchen table in hours or a day or so and is far more expensive. I would sure like to see gas cheaper than milk. I can get milk for $1.69 to $1.85 in any local grocery for 1%, 2% or whole. 87 octane E10 regular gas is double that wherever I look. This is the first I have heard about the fiasco with the Russian pipeline. I bet heads will roll over that. So we have troubles in Venezuela, contaminated fuel in Russia, Iranian sanctions, and a recent major refinery fire in US. That sounds like a perfect storm to create world shortages and drive prices through the roof. All we need is a major hurricane to disrupt the Gulf Ports. Youre getting milk for $1.69 a GALLON? Wow, interesting!! Been right $3 a gallon in Tn for the last 20 yrs. Strange. Btw, gas is $2.59 here. As to the subject of milk prices, store brand milk at a Walmart and another Kroger owned discount grocery store in a nearby town has been averaging $1.18 - $1.29 with occasional dips to .99 cents a gallon for a few years now. Deans brand milk at a local Dollar General store has been $1.78 a gallon for the past couple of months. (I know of a local middle eastern owned/managed gas station/convenience store that was buying Walmart's proprietary store-brand 'Great Value' milk by the cartloads in store at the above retail prices and reselling it in their store for $1.99 a gallon and got away with it for a couple of years.)
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Right now regular is running 15-20 cents a gallon more at the nearest larger town with multiple gas stations than it is at another small town maybe 15 miles away and just two three gas station/convenience stores. It's been averaging about the same difference in price for around a month now too. The larger town has several of the exact same chain brand gas stations as the small town. Two of the ones in the small town are regional or national chains and one is a privately owned local chain of gas station/convenience stores I know for a fact the same bulk gas delivery truck refills the storage tanks for all the locations of the locally owned chain Looks to me like they charge as much as they think they can get away with at the moment per location.
Thanks for that jewel, Capt. Obvious. It's called capitalism, the market (that's you and me) gets to set prices, not some preening politician or bureaucrat. And sometimes it's called Price Fixing
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It's the time of year when they are switching to summer blends from winter blends, so they let stores at the refineries run down. Then, they spend some time cleaning and reprograming the production process before any new gasoline starts being produced. It scrambles prices, for sure, some more than others, depending on where in the U.S. you are and how much gas your local suppliers have on hand. ... That sounds a whole lot like manipulating supply, which is not true supply and demand in any way, shape, or form.
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Same cheet different year. Refineries blame oil producers , oil producers blame refineries, oil is at $62 a barrel yet gas is the same price as when oil was over $100 a barrel. None of it ever makes sense, but somehow there’s always an excuse and ultimately we pay for it!
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They call that making a profit.
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Oh good, another price of gas thread.
"Gee, I wonder wtf is going on with the price of gas!"
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Wanigoon will have another gas thread by Wednesday, that or "rain".
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$2.39 at Costco on Friday Fuqq me. $3.69 at my Costco. Refinery fire here in SoCal. The refineries lock their gates when there is a fire and keep city and county FDs out. The fuggin fires seem awful convenient, along with scheduled maintenance, right before summer vacation season. If what you say is true, someone could easily build a new, reliable refinery and rake in the dough. Or do you think you govt in SoCal might have an issue with that? Nothing like a good “gas prices” thread to bring out the closet socialists.
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It's the time of year when they are switching to summer blends from winter blends, so they let stores at the refineries run down. Then, they spend some time cleaning and reprograming the production process before any new gasoline starts being produced. Not sure where you’ve heard this, but it does not happen.
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Y'all do know you don't have to buy it, right? If it's just too expensive for you, stay at home.
I bet millennials read the campfire every day to feel better about themselves.
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I need to raise my prices when the temperatures go up in summer.
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I need to raise my prices when the temperatures go up in summer. Is there anyone stopping you? Making a profit is completely legit.
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