A Gas Idiot

[laborcat]

I was going through a town, and noticed gas for .99c a gallon from two seperate gas stations, right next to a third that had the 1.69c a gallon..

Then one changed to .89c a gallon. I decide to stop and get some gas, and a line was forming..but I was only 4th in line, so no biggy. The other station suddenly went to .85c a gallon. They were having a pricing war. By the time I got in and pumped my gas, I had gotten it for .69c a gallon (they dropped FAST) Both places had lines miles long. What is funny though is, the 1.69c place was still doing good business..AND everybody who was waiting in line for the cheaper gas was buying drinks/etc from that place.

I was just thinking about the price war that Meijer and Kroger had back in 2001 where it got down to like 10 cents a gallon and the traffic was so bad they had to call the sheriff's office in to maintain order... I remember the traffic was blocking the entrances and I was having a hard time getting out of the lot when my shift was over.

[Geek King]

Most of the "Gas" motor models are actually glow motors - they take a methanol/castor oil mix (usually, but not always, with nitromethane added).

Good to know. All the person I was with said was, "I need to put some more gas in it before I take it up again."

Apparently model airplanes don't play well with Mr. Gravity when the go juice runs out.