dgl24087 said:
Maybe. But let me put it another way- one company owns probably the majority of the stations in a pretty big area here. He has multiple brands and sometimes even owns BOTH stations at an exit, although they are different brands. I don't think the public as a whole has picked up on this.
Now surely he has some huge contract in place since he buys a lot of fuel from the distribution point about 60 miles away. So if he is paying x amount per gallon for say, Shell, and has it brought to all his Shell stations, with perhaps a small difference in delivered price due to mileage, then why does it vary so much between his different stations? I completely understand charging what the market will bear but don't tell us they only make 10 cents a gallon when his stations vary 20 or 30 cents a gallon or more!
As for charging an interstate exit station more- So if this owner has a station right at the exit, easy and quicker trip for the tanker, the exit station pays more than the same owners station 5 miles away off the exit? I ain't buying that one, if it is true then some station owners need to raise ****!
PS I'm not trying to attack you! Something ain't right with the "system"... Yesterday I read where Exxon/Mobil again posted RECORD profits!
Still remember buying gas for $0.25 a gallon, or less when they had their (gas wars) in the 50's; course you were working for 50/60 cents an hour 