Tweets from around the U.S. " long lines at gas stations right now!" Panic buying! Fights!

The gasoline that is affected, from every article I've read, has been wholesale, unbranded gas. That's not gasoline that is being sold at your local Chevron or 76. That's the stuff being sold by your local Costco or *insert random name* mom and pop. One article on the post said that these independent type of dealers would have to charge $4.90 to break even. Now, compare that to the prices being offered by the Chevron or 76 (average was about $4.60 last night). They wouldn't be able to sell it and if they did try to, I know what would happen. I've seen it before.

When they did the same thing here years ago and bumped the price of gas up by 25 cents to specific types of buyers (independents and jobbers), well, they bought. The company owned stores and non-jobber dealers undercut them by 10 cents--because they could. So while the indies and jobbers were selling at the equivalent of that $4.90 price because of a 25 cent price hike just for them (with lots of love from the oil companies), the company stores were selling at a price equivalent of $4.80 (not actual prices but comparing what is going on in SoCal and what went on 10+ years ago). The company owned stores got to get another 15 cents a gallon pure profit doing this.

Well, our senator tried to do something about it. Like I said, I've seen it all before. It'd just be nice if somebody actually listened after all of these years. Wyden has fought for years on the subject. We lost a $32 million business trying to survive it when they did it to us. I don't blame them for closing their doors instead. Right call, I say.

Search Wyden FTC Redlining to find out more. It'll make you cry probably. FTC does nothing. They find no evidence of collusion when the companies are all so embroiled with each other that they aren't colluding really. They are pretty much nearly one and the same company.

For starters:

They also charged independent dealers higher wholesale prices than they charge branded stations.

[link to www.bendbugle.com]

Sound familiar?

buncha whiney babies. we pay over $8 a gallon.

Don't know if this has been posted yet, but this may be just a covert way to keep people from traveling before the new Madrid fault goes BOOM!

But we don't have cars that get 54 miles to the gallon like we rented in France a few years ago.

I just got back. I filled up, and at 1:30 am there was a line. 3 cars at each pump at two gas stations across the street from each other.


Night all

It's up to $3.58/gal ! This morning it was $3.38/gal

Guess I should have purchased yesterday!

If you really want to know what prices are in different areas.

[link to gasbuddy.com]

Where the heck are you from to have 3.38 a gal.

Fueled up today at $3.38 a gallon. The must not have got the memo. Every other gas station i saw in town spiked their price up $.21 in a matter of hours.

Why ?

I never understood why every boring family-sedan must have a V3 with 300hp in a country with (what i consider) extremely slow speed limits.

Where the heck are you from to have 3.38 a gal.

Why ?

I never understood why every boring family-sedan must have a V3 with 300hp in a country with (what i consider) extremely slow speed limits.

buncha whiney babies. we pay over $8 a gallon.

6.21 A GALLON IN FRISCO..NO DOOM..YA..RIGHT!

That's because you are fucking ero-trash.

Where? I pay 1.45$!

Error. To BUY anything

BTW. i paid UDS $9.58303 for a US gallon of fuel today.