Guess its time to stop buying so many things for the car and instead bye a piece of **** honda that gets 40 mpg

 

They knew I was going on a long drive this weekend and jacked up the prices.

 

Yeah I feel bad for all the guys going to subyfest. I hope they filled up a couple days ago.

 

yeah not excited to drive down to LA... god this is gonna suck.

 

I am now glad that I didn't go.

 

Illuminati. nuff said

 

The indie gas stations purchase surplus fuel from the majors. If there's no surplus, than they pay out the ***.
When I worked for a gas station in highschool I got to see behind the curtain a bit. No matter what the pump price was, we has gross profit of $.10/gallon. When gas jumped from ~$1.00/gallon to ~$2.50/gallon, we still made $0.10/gallon.
I've heard the profit is even less now for the stations,

 

Ask yourself why there are only 3 refineries to serve the entire state. Then ask yourself why gas is so much less expensive in other states. If there really is so much profit to be made in this state, why haven't other companies come rushing in? Requiring special 'California-only' fuel mean less supply. Less supply and a relatively inflexible demand equals higher prices.

Californians want clean air and cheap gas. Currently they have neither so they blame companies that provide them exactly what they're incentivised to produce and blame the politicians and bureaucrats who used their feeble minds to try and give the electorate the impossible things they asked for.

California: Failed ideas in action

 

paid 4.99 9/10 a gallon, took ~66 to fill up the tank. OH GOD, I just wanted cheap 93, who cares about clean airrrrrrrrrrrrr, BREATH IN THE EXHAUST FUMESS

 

Its actually cleaner to run 93 octane... People are just stupid.

 

pedal power this weekend.

 

My friend owns a gas station and to keep things competitive if one gas station raises its price all gas stations raise their prices. So just because chevron had that fire and raised their prices to make up for the difference everyone else raises their prices. Its straight bull****. My local gas station down the block was the cheapest gas station around and now its $4.85 for premium. Looks like im never going to drive my car again.

 

Just paid $5.19 a gallon.

 

There are actually like 5 refineries in the bay area alone.

I don't know what's going on, but I do think there is some greed involved. Everyone brings up the price per barrel, but I haven't seen anyone bring up production. It may be cheaper to buy the crude, but the refineries being down (whether for maintenance or something unexpected) hinders production. And what happens at one refinery can affect another even though they are separate companies.

 

Exactly. It comes from a few refineries, so if they are charging more for the gas, ALL gas stations raise their prices.