Station Owner Charges Less for Gas

A gas station owner in Kelso, Washington said he’s sick of oil companies gouging the public and decided to do something about it.  So, he started selling his gas at cost, which ended up being about 40 cents less than most other stations in town.

Needless to say, the other stations weren’t happy and have complained.

Posted Thursday September 11, 2003 in News by Chris Curtis

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I think this says it all:

They say that there’s a shortage, and more people are traveling. But our volume doesn’t change.

Since the goal is to support non-OPEC countries, and control our own sources of oil, it seems to me that the simple solution would be to treat petroleum and gasoline as a utility.  With the amounts that we consume and as our primary means of travel, for all practical purposes--fuel IS a utility.

Not that utilities don’t have problems, but this is just ridiculous, and there’s little recourse that could be done by private or government agencies in response to it when it operates as it is now.

By Derek Jones on September 11, 2003 at 11:16am link

Incidentally (and I don’t know why the heck I didn’t think of this before), I read an article about how gas pricing works yesterday.

But, yeah, current pricing schemes are pretty crazy.

By Chris Curtis on September 11, 2003 at 11:46am link

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