Gas prices....

[mattm04]

It bugs me the most to hear politicians say haw they are concerned about high fuel prices, when gas is traded on the NYMEX @ about $2.60 a gallon, then the taxes (they they have the power to change) in imposed to add about $0.50/GAL. Gas stations and oil companies make very little money on gas sales because of the high cost of the product they are selling or refining.

[blas]

I need to find a new day to get gas. It was $3.19 up until Monday this week.

Anyway, Venom, I feel for you. I had a lot of "special" customers who did that same thing. They'd show up anywhere between 2-3 times per shift (so in 8 hours) getting between $1-5 in gas and a pack of cigarettes. Never bought any more than 1 or 2 packs at a time, and never filled their entire tank.

Just let them do it. It's annoying, but it makes sense to them. One thing I have learned, from retail and now from training total drooling breathing pieces of flesh, it doesn't do a dense person a service to try to correct them or explain logic to them. They don't understand.

[protege]

Last time I bought gas, it was around $3.20. Now it's around $3.30. I'm not too worried, mainly because I get about 35-45mpg in the Corolla, and (hopefully) around 25mpg in the MG. A full tank lasts about a week and an half...mainly because I don't go out much, and if I do, I combine trips.

I have a neighbor, who has a huge Ford pickup..that hasn't moved since last Christmas. Seriously--he hasn't touched it since then, mainly because of the fuel costs. Rather than go bankrupt, he bought a little Honda.

[smileyeagle1021]

y'alls doing better than me... granted utah has cheap gas (last fill up was $3.15 about a week ago) but even then I'm having to take the bus 3 days a week to be able to afford to fill my tank (i drive a versa)... the problem with utah is that while gas is cheap, it's cheap because they don't oxegynate it enough for the high altitude and gas milage is lower here than elsewhere (when I am visiting reno where they do oxegynate the gas I get 3 to 5 miles per gallon more than in salt lake)

[IHateStupidCustomers]

We have a full size truck that we just can't afford to drive anymore. $75 a week (when it was like $3.15). And then my car is about $30-$35 a week. My fiance has a motorcycle for the summer, which saves our asses. The gas for the bike, the insurance and the payment is actually cheaper than gas in the truck! I'm actually getting one this summer, too, because we just can't afford the gas anymore!

[greensinestro]

We have people that come in all day and night getting $1 to $5 each time.. ALL NIGHT LONG!#@!$#!@ Pisses us off..

$1? Wow! That would barely get anyone a quarter of a gallon. Sometimes I put in $10, and that's only good for a couple of days. $5 used to get me longer than that, back when it was 88 cents a gallon.

The $1 reminds me of the school girls I saw once, back 20 years ago, who scrounged up $1 in pennies, nickels, and dimes, and purchased gas that 7-11. The clerk was pissed to handle a handful of change like this, mainly because it was four girls going back and forth, digging out coins from their pockets, their shoes, their purses, even going back and forth from the car to get this money.

Maybe our oil will run out faster than it should, because of this.

[pyxee]

We have people that come in all day and night getting $1 to $5 each time.. ALL NIGHT LONG!#@!$#!@ Pisses us off..

Think that is bad, I have never understood this, but I would get tons of people putting 50 or 75 cents. At $3.00 a gallon 50 cents is going to get you nowhere.

[azamir]

Lucky Americans

Hi all!
Just wanted to tell you all how lucky you are.
At the moment here in germany gas is 1,40 EUR/l - that's about 8$/gallon

[Becks]

One of the reasons I don't have my own car. Gas prices. Now, I don't complain about them, much, and never to the employees because I used to work at a gas station.

dont they know that a carton is cheaper then a single pack (unless you have a two for one promotion.)

Not everywhere. I have yet to find a place in Essex/Passaic/Bergen County that sells cartons at a reduced price per pack. vs. single packs.

[VenomX]

What gets me in this story is the part about getting $5 worth of gas. Last time I looked, that barely gets you anywhere these days.

We have people that come in all day and night getting $1 to $5 each time.. ALL NIGHT LONG!#@!$#!@ Pisses us off..

[Racket_Man]

I feel old. When I started driving, 12 gallons would have cost around $10.

I feel really old. I remember gas starting at 19 or 20 cents a gallon

[greensinestro]

Right now, the lowest I have found in Palm Beach County is $3.269 per gallon at the local Hess. However, the Chevron nearby is at $3.359 and the BP at $3.339, so I am sure Hess will follow suit very soon.

What gets me in this story is the part about getting $5 worth of gas. Last time I looked, that barely gets you anywhere these days. Maybe if people like who you mentioned in your story would have more gas money if they weren't so into their smokes. Or, buy two packs of smokes instead of one at a time, and they wouldn't be burning so much gas.

[iviles]

Whats wrong with these people? Not only are they wasting gas and gripping about it but dont they know that a carton is cheaper then a single pack (unless you have a two for one promotion.)

[anyanka2]

Gas price increases affect the prices of everything. My store has held off on increasing the price on items up until a couple of weeks ago when the distributor basically forced them to and most items have increased at least $.10, some almost $.60. Some customers have been bitching about the increase in prices like it's our fault, when there's nothing we can do about.

Probably the worse price increases have been on bread and baked goods because of the increased price of wheat due to ethanol. Eggs and milk have also gone up too. Blame election year politics and the need to increase farm subsidies. I'm a sincere believe that if there weren't farm subsidies, milk would be $.50 to $.75 cheaper and eggs would be at least $.50 cheaper.

[SubwayGirl]

I used to be upset whenever I got gas, until I did profit and loss statements for a chain of gas stations. Gas stations are lucky if they make 1% profit on gas. If people are going to be upset, they should be upset about the 70% profit margin that gas stations makes off of novelty items.