For the past 2 years,I've noticed that the price for a gallon of regular gas at Chico's Service Center in San Francisco has remained the same at $5.03.The station is not on 101 and several stations closer to the airport are at least 2 dollars per gallon cheaper.What could cause this disparity?Is there more here than what we see?
O.T.-Can anyone explain this?
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It's about $1.55 a gallon in Houston. could it be you were an idiot when you voted?
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I know in Orlando that the stations right near the airport charge much more, but not that much more. They prey on people returning rental cars and not looking at the pump price. I'd have to imagine that you would have noticed if the station was closed. Their business plan may be to do low volume but high margins. I would expect that strategy would fail in short order.
Many years ago, I had a friend who was an auto mechanic. He owned a service station. I don't remember the exact reason, but he was required to sell gasoline. But he preferred to be in the garage working on cars, rather than tending the pumps. So he priced his gas at something like $4 per gallon more than the station across the street. He met his requirement of offering gas for sale, but he never sold any.
There is something in California's Business and Profession Code which requires all service stations near a main highway to provide rest rooms for its customers but I see nothing about requiring them to serve gas.Maybe it's as Upstream says,and that the owner may have a much more lucrative business repairing cars and has a very wealthy clientele for his gasoline.
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There was a station near Metropark that was doing something similar maybe 8 years ago. One day I finally pulled in and asked the guy.
will bet it is some technical obligation to sell gas - but the business in focused on car repair -
if it was low priced there would be traffic of people coming in and out to buy gas - and then the real pain in the butt - if it is a place that has a lot that is tight on space & not a lot of room around the pumps - is when those huge tanker trucks come in to fill the tanks - especially if they won't come at night but show up in the middle of the day - have to juggle cars - and it can create disarray for nearly an hour.
- maybe it is like certain package goods liquor stores in NJ that have a license that requires them to have a serving area - so in a corner there are three barstools & a bar that is never used - but the sell huge amount of bottles of wine, cans & bottles of beer & booze that is put in bags & boxes.
if it was low priced there would be traffic of people coming in and out to buy gas - and then the real pain in the butt - if it is a place that has a lot that is tight on space & not a lot of room around the pumps - is when those huge tanker trucks come in to fill the tanks - especially if they won't come at night but show up in the middle of the day - have to juggle cars - and it can create disarray for nearly an hour.
- maybe it is like certain package goods liquor stores in NJ that have a license that requires them to have a serving area - so in a corner there are three barstools & a bar that is never used - but the sell huge amount of bottles of wine, cans & bottles of beer & booze that is put in bags & boxes.
Probably referring to high State and Local fuel taxes imposed by the elected officials.
The Exxon on the corner of 27 and Wood Ave? I used to live right by there and wondered what the deal was, what did they say? I think that place is a Delta now.
There is a gas station in Sausalito, outside of San Fransisco that does the same thing. I think they were at 4.80 a gallon in the summer. There are cars parked at some of the pumps though so it looks like they are busy. It seems like he doesn't want to pump gas at all...
There was a station on River Road in Summit that until recently was always about two dollars higher than everybody else. This is a better explanation than my guess that all the big pharma employees at the Ciba-Gigy later Schering-Plough office around the corner expense accounted it and didn't care.
This is exactly why. There was a station on Rt 1 in Princeton that did the same thing
There is a station in my neck of the woods that is notorious for doing the same thing. Is on Rt 561 in Voorhees, a Lukoil i think. Their gas is at least $1 a gallon more than others on the road. Same reasoning, the owner just wants to do mechanic work, but wants thr Lukoil name on the building in order to appear legitimate. So he offers gas but at a price that most people wont buy it. There was actually a story in the paper a few months ago when some dipshit raised a huge stink because his son went there and bought gas without looking at the price. Supposedly Lukoil was investigating this guy and threatening to take away his franchise. But I'd be shocked if this happened, he's been a Lukoil brand for probably 10 years and haa been charging exorbitant prices the whole time
Ha I think I'm the moron because I wrote that in reverse. Allow me to clarify...when I asked the guy, he gave me an answer very similar to what Upstream encountered with his auto mechanic friend.
A guy in my town did the same thing. He said that if he stopped selling gas, he would have to remove the gas pumps and underground tanks, which was very expensive. Eventually he but the bullet and did it.
There are a few stations like this near OIA/Orlandos airport. The price most recently was $6 a gallon. They priced it high to take advantage of people returning rental cars and needing to top them off as well as to take advantage of foreigners who didnt know local gas prices.
Orlando recently passed a gouging law and put a stop to this practise.....
Orlando recently passed a gouging law and put a stop to this practise.....
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