WTH?? How does gas go from $3.12 to $3.21 in an hour?

[bull]

So I drive past the Shell station near my house at about 8 pm and it's $3.12/gal. for regular and I drive past it again going home at 9:15 pm and it's gone up $.09/gal.? How does that work? I'm getting sick of this BS.

[Vainglory, Esq.]

Here's how it happened.

The proprietor of the Shell station in question raised the price by 9 cents.  It probably took him less than an hour.

There is no step 2.

[Old Moparz]

Here's how it happened.

The proprietor of the Shell station in question raised the price by 9 cents. It probably took him less than an hour.

There is no step 2.

Or, maybe it was one week & one hour. A friend of mine had that happen to him once after a party he doesn't remember.

[BMOTOXSTAR]

So I drive past the Shell station near my house at about 8 pm and it's $3.12/gal. for regular and I drive past it again going home at 9:15 pm and it's gone up $.09/gal.? How does that work? I'm getting sick of this BS.

You can thank Bush for this.

[Todd Wilson]

Here's how it happened.

The proprietor of the Shell station in question raised the price by 9 cents.  It probably took him less than an hour.

There is no step 2.

YUP!  But the gas in the  station storage tank was still produced with a certain cost at a certian time. That gas isnt costing more to produce! So its BS when they raise the prices like that!


Todd

[pettyfan43]

So I drive past the Shell station near my house at about 8 pm and it's $3.12/gal. for regular and I drive past it again going home at 9:15 pm and it's gone up $.09/gal.? How does that work? I'm getting sick of this BS.

You can thank Bush for this.

Bush doesn't own an oil company, ALL of the oil companies are doing this, it's called GREED. The spiked the prices after the hurricane, It was their big excuse for busting that 3 dollar cap, And then coincidentally (YEP that's sarcasm) they recorded record profits for that same time period.
Now it's everything from the war in the middle east to the fact that the big guys secretary had beans for lunch and got gassy afterward.

Any and every excuse and it ain't just one oil company. It's greedy oil company executives that can retire with a 44 million dollar golden parachute.
They all do it and they've got us right now and apparently there is no way to stop it.

[Brock Samson]

 

[bull]

Here's how it happened.

The proprietor of the Shell station in question raised the price by 9 cents.  It probably took him less than an hour.

There is no step 2.

I see that college edumacation is finally starting to pay off.

[Lowprofile]

So I drive past the Shell station near my house at about 8 pm and it's $3.12/gal. for regular and I drive past it again going home at 9:15 pm and it's gone up $.09/gal.? How does that work? I'm getting sick of this BS.

He made it Happen. 

[TruckDriver]

They raised the prices in that time because the oil tycoons gave themselves a raise. Either that, or they heard the Walmart made more then the oil companies in the last quarter and are back on top of the money making companies.     

We will be paying $6 or $7 dollars a gallon pretty soon, and people will just nothing but complain and keep buying it like always. That is why the oil companies get away with it. They control the worlds economy's, and they know it. If this was any other item that we could buy, they wouldn't sell much of it because the price is to high, and would eventually go out of business. People don't realize that it is driving the prices of everything else through the roof like groceries cause it happens slower. I am paying double now for groceries then I was last year at this time. I don't eat much, and I'm paying average of $80.00 a week on food which for me is insane. 

[my69]

They raised the prices in that time because the oil tycoons gave themselves a raise. Either that, or they heard the Walmart made more then the oil companies in the last quarter and are back on top of the money making companies.     

We will be paying $6 or $7 dollars a gallon pretty soon, and people will just nothing but complain and keep buying it like always. That is why the oil companies get away with it. They control the worlds economy's, and they know it. If this was any other item that we could buy, they wouldn't sell much of it because the price is to high, and would eventually go out of business. People don't realize that it is driving the prices of everything else through the roof like groceries cause it happens slower. I am paying double now for groceries then I was last year at this time. I don't eat much, and I'm paying average of $80.00 a week on food which for me is insane. 

BINGO You got er fiugered out I glad I'm not the only one thinking this! And Like I mentioned before Whoever is behind all of this wants this country to fall on it's knees.

[hemihead]

Yes , we are all to blame for this. From the greedy Oil companies right down to the Soccer Mom who can't live without that big SUV.

[Bones68charger]

How about the fact that we don't have enough refineries to process the oil? Or the fact that a billion Chinese discovered the car......There are a lot of reasons why gas is $$$ now.....and I am not happy about any reason...I have to drive +70 miles a day to go to work...

[Chargen69]

in before the 

[charger490]

i was a driver for an oil company and have to get paid by you people that buy the gas.keep up the good work. lol if you guys want to save 5% on your gas purshaces get a  DISCOVER gas credit card and use it.if gas is 3.00 a gal. that is 15cents you save. of course you have to payoff your card every month.

[Chargen69]

BTW, how come walmart doesnt open a refinery and start saving the american people, they were able to mess with drug prices


what I mean is it would sure be a image booster if a donald trump or wal-mart took it upon themselves to make a difference 

[bordin34]

There actually are gas stations at some wal-mart and it usually is about 5 cents cheaper. An owner of a Sunoco station told me he has no control over the price of gas the corporation e-mails him and tells him when to raise/lower the price. He said that it had to go up 3 cents tomorrow because he got an e-mail from them.

[PocketThunder]

Gasoline usually goes up (or down) in price about 10 cents at a time.  Did you expect it to go up 1 penny at a time?  If so the gas station attendant will spend more time running back outside with the long pole and the numbers to change the price.  Thus being inefficient.

[NYCMille]

Dude, I filled the Charger at a cost of $3.43per/gallon yesterday... ugh...

[BigBlackDodge]

Dude, I filled the Charger at a cost of $3.43per/gallon yesterday... ugh...

There goes all that Bullrun prize money!


BBD

[HITMAN 149]

that was a good one!!!!!!!!!

[Ponch ®]

Here's how it happened.

The proprietor of the Shell station in question raised the price by 9 cents.  It probably took him less than an hour.

There is no step 2.

no, here's how it happened. A short little indian guy comes out holding a pole with a suction cup at one end, then he uses the suction cup to take down the old number from the priceboard, and puts up the new number. I seen em do it, and it takes them less than 10 minutes. 

[Charger_Fan]

Here's how it happened.

The proprietor of the Shell station in question raised the price by 9 cents.  It probably took him less than an hour.

There is no step 2.

no, here's how it happened. A short little indian guy comes out holding a pole with a suction cup at one end, then he uses the suction cup to take down the old number from the priceboard, and puts up the new number. I seen em do it, and it takes them less than 10 minutes. 

I've seen the same thing here...but it was a messican.

[Brock Samson]

and he works for a union and makes $30.oo an hour too.. 

[PocketThunder]

and he works for a union and makes $30.oo an hour too.. 

But now we are getting digital price signs, so the employee sits at a desk and changes the price from inside.  Or GW does it from the WH... hahahah  j/k 

[CharlieCharger]

They took that suction cup device and changed the numbers 

[Silver R/T]

apparently in WA it does..

[69Coronet]

golly now i feel lucky to only have to pay 2.79 a gallon

[69_500]

I was going to say I was complaining about paying $2.84 just the other day. Guess I'll keep my complaints to myself.

[Vainglory, Esq.]

Here's how it happened.

The proprietor of the Shell station in question raised the price by 9 cents.  It probably took him less than an hour.

There is no step 2.

I see that college edumacation is finally starting to pay off.

[Mean 318]

I know it doesn't even put a dent in the problem, but I will be doing a lot less driving this summer. Not because I am so poor I cant afford to drive, but because I would rather spend my hard earned money on myself! Not fill there pockets! If we all start doing it, gas will go down! Thats the way it works. People will get fed up with it all, start driving smaller more efficient cars, driving less, using electricity more efficiently, and they will be forced into lowering the prices back down to a reasonable price. It is a combination of the oil companies and the oil cartells. IMO the government needs to put their foot down with the oil companies! Sher they can try and break up Microsoft because of his "evil monopoly" just my $.02

[bull]

BTW, the same station I created this thread about bumped its price of regular to $3.29 on April 25th so that's a $.17/gal. increase in a 24-hour period.

[bull]

Here's how it happened.

The proprietor of the Shell station in question raised the price by 9 cents.  It probably took him less than an hour.

There is no step 2.

I see that college edumacation is finally starting to pay off.

Oh jeez, now you misspelled edumacation on that poster.

[Vainglory, Esq.]

Here's how it happened.

The proprietor of the Shell station in question raised the price by 9 cents.  It probably took him less than an hour.

There is no step 2.

I see that college edumacation is finally starting to pay off.

Oh jeez, now you misspelled edumacation on that poster.

I didn't put together the photoshop.  Buuuuuuut...  I went to college so clearly I wouldn't have misspelled edumacation had it actually been me.

[bull]

Well, I guess a word that doesn't exist can't really be misspelled, can it?

[Vainglory, Esq.]

I think I studied that in Philosophy 365.

[The70RT]

We just need to take Iraqs oil for the billions of dollars we are spending on them. Maybe it would drop a few cents then!!!