The next step is to add gas prices to the site when you see them. ******************************************************* 05-07-06, 04:15 PM DorianGreyed It is good to see Hippolips back posting again. ******************************************************* 05-07-06, 04:58 PM hippolips
The next step is to add gas prices to the site when you see them.
Hi Methos: You don't have to add gas prices to the site when you see them.
In our town all of the new gas prices are automatically updated daily so that you always know who the highest price gas gouger in town is. hippolips ******************************************************* 05-07-06, 06:08 PM Professor methos, thanks for a good link. Smile
hippolips, I wish it were that easy. You'd have to get a large number of drivers to participate before you had market clout. Your scenario depends on people having computers and email, reading this particular message and absorbing the information, and having the motivation, commitment, and time to forward the email to others. Then all the participants have to be willing to use a filling station perhaps inconveniently out of their way.
Not impossible, but implausible. Still, I hope it works! Smile ******************************************************* 05-07-06, 08:15 PM hippolips Professor: In my town ,the gas station which is only one block from me is at least 10c a gallon higher than anyone else in town.
I will gladly drive a mile or so , to someone else ,before I'll give that greedy bastard the satisfaction of sticking it to me.
If everyone else in town doesn't care if they're getting screwed,I don't care.
I've shown them how and what they can do about it.
If they don't act in their own self interest,they deserve what it costs them.
hippolips ******************************************************* 05-08-06, 09:02 AM Rakuchild I've been using a gasline price tracking site for a couple of years now. (The kind drivers report the prices to.) While it hasn't brought gas prices down, it has been helpful in planning my route, especially when I have to work at a satillite campus. I'm not driving out to the suburbs just to buy gasoline but if I'm headed out that way, it's good to know which way is beneficial.
About a year ago I stopped at the station that listed the lowest price in the entire city. They were doing heavy business and didn't know why they were so popular that afternoon. The guy in line in front of me told them they were listed as the lowest price on the website, which they'd never heard of. They haven't been the lowest priced station since that day. ******************************************************* 05-23-06, 04:18 PM hippolips Hi Gang:
Just an update on the daily gas prices in Temecula,CA.
As of today,5-23-06 ,the highest price in town is $3.45 per gallon ,while lowest price in town is $3.27...an 18cent a gallon difference.
Still don't think it pays to shop around ????Still don't think there are no gas gougers???
Vacation time is coming up soon.
hippolips ******************************************************* 05-23-06, 08:49 PM methos Who, exactly, are you arguing against?
No one said it doesn't pay to shop around, and I'm not sure where anyone said anything about price gouging one way or the other. ******************************************************* 05-24-06, 09:07 AM shelster
quote: As of today,5-23-06 ,the highest price in town is $3.45 per gallon ,while lowest price in town is $3.27...an 18cent a gallon difference.
Wow
It was $2.79 for regular here this morning ******************************************************* 05-24-06, 02:07 PM bik74 I honestly dont understand why the prices are going up. The production hasnt gone down and the demand hasnt changed much. The price in was 25/barel in sep 2003 and is now above 75. All this on account of sensitive markets... and pure capitalistic economy ! The big oil corporations are making huge money and getting tax cuts... isnt that where the major problem is ! Or am i just too ignorant. ******************************************************* 05-26-06, 07:21 AM Jelp01 In my little corner of the world, there are exactly three places at which to buy gas locally, and all three are at the same price---$3.05/gallon for regular unleaded. The next nearest place is at $2.99/gallon, but that's a nine mile drive each way. I'm not quite so desperate so as to drive the 18 mile round trip to save 6 cents a gallon just yet.
This message has been edited. Last edited by: Jelp01, 05-26-06 08:59 AM ******************************************************* 05-26-06, 08:55 AM Rakuchild We are finally seeing some competition on prices here. I paid $2.67 on Wednesday and notice on the website the prices are ranging from $2.63 to $2.79 in this area. ******************************************************* 05-31-06, 11:20 AM frankvan $10.00 For A Fill-Up??
Gas deal was not all it seemed 'Attendant' at West Baltimore station who offered $10 fill-ups charged with theft By Nicole Fuller sun reporter Originally published May 31, 2006 Standing beside pump No. 8 at a West Baltimore Citgo gas station, a seeming attendant known by some customers as "the gas man" was offering a deal so cheap it could have been a going-out-of business-sale.
