[AT] possibly OT scrap prices---Wally gas

[charlie hill]

It's the same here.  Not with Sheetz because they don't have many stores 
here yet.  There is a local chain that has stores in 2 or 3 counties.  You 
can ride down highway 70 and pass several of their stores in a 40 mile ride. 
The prices change sometimes as much as 20 cents in that distance and they 
always seem to be cheaper at the stores most distant from the terminal.

It's all about competition.  Here  in the town where I live they pretty much 
control the price.   down the road just a ways the price is set by Kangaroo 
and Murphy and they come down to it.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fink Sr" <nancydick at pennswoods.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] possibly OT scrap prices---Wally gas


> Charlie you should see here in PA where sheetz main office is. There
> gas will change about 10 cents a gallon in a 13 mile distance. From
> Altoona to Patton there is always at least 5 cents a gallon
> difference. Difference in distance from where they pick up is about 5
> miles. [ Go figure]
> R Fink
> PA
>
>
>
> At 12:10 AM 10/2/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>>David,  I agree that $5.00 was a bit high but I'm going to defend the
>>actions of some of the stations on the day of the storm.  The store near 
>>my
>>house went from $3.79 to $4.39 in 1 hour.  He never ran out of gas and
>>didn't have any lines.  Others in town went up to about $4.  and had lines
>>out in the street and lots of problems.  It happens that I was working for
>>an oil jobber that day.  His driver told me that the price at the terminal
>>that morning jumped to $4.15 wholesale to the jobbers.  That doesn't 
>>include
>>the hauling, the 44 cents of NC and US tax or any overhead or profit.  So
>>$4.39 really wasn't out of range.  In fact if he hadn't had some gas 
>>already
>>in his tanks he would have been loosing money at that price.  By the end 
>>of
>>the day he had cut his price back to $4.29 and then the next morning to
>>$4.19.  The folks that kept selling cheap on the storm day sold out and 
>>then
>>were selling at about $4.20 or so when they got another load.
>>
>>I think that the guys that raised the prices helped to stop the panic 
>>buying
>>and made it possible for folks that have to have gas on a daily basis to
>>still get some instead of having all of it packed in the tanks of old 
>>ladies
>>who don't burn a tank a month.
>>
>> >From what I hear the reason that some stations here in eastern NC
>> don't have
>>gas today isn't because they can't get it but because they don't have a
>>contract price locked in and can't compete with the guys that do.    They
>>don't want to pay $4.00 + and put it in their tanks to sit there while 
>>their
>>competitors sell at $3.60.  That is what the folks at Sheetz stores told 
>>our
>>local news folks concerning their new store in Greenville NC.
>
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