Gas stations add virtually no value to what they sell. They're like a soda dispenser in a fast food restaurant.
So where do they get off soliciting the Hartford Courant to write this kind of "we're in it together" nonsense ?
Rising Gas Prices Hurt Consumers And Station Owners
Does anyone actually care if a millionaire station owner is "hurt" or sees his profits squeezed ?
Go look up the word "profit."
According to Webster's:
Definition of PROFIT
1
: a valuable return : gain
2
: the excess of returns over expenditure in a transaction or series of transactions; especially : the excess of the selling price of goods over their cost
3
: net income usually for a given period of time
4
: the ratio of profit for a given year to the amount of capital invested or to the value of sales
5
: the compensation accruing to entrepreneurs for the assumption of risk in business enterprise as distinguished from wages or rent
Does someone who was maimed by Merck and had an Empire taken from them by these Globalist Germans and Globalist Jews (as opposed to private citizens) give a damn about the money the gas station owner, the corporation and the puppet dictators in the Middle East get from causing arbitrary and capricious price fluctuations ? Suckers like those in this article then resign themselves to them.
Consumers aren't happy, but some said last week they're resigned to the increases, which, at least for the time being, are far lower than the spike of 2008.
But gas station owners are being squeezed, and losing profits.
Poor babies. Go protest to the corporations filling your bunkers, not to the public and the media that's all too willing to humor you.
"The retailers right now are really taking it on the chin; gas prices are going up too quickly — overnight. That's the kind of thing that kills them; they can't raise retail prices that high and be competitive," said Gene Guilford, president of the Independent Connecticut Petroleum Association, which represents retailers. "They'd rather sell you a $2 cup of coffee than a gallon of gas. They make more money on the coffee."
The gas prices aren't going up. That's a lie. The gas in the tank was already paid for and delivered. The price cannot go up on something you already own. That's like saying the gas you have in your car tank has also gone up.
A West Hartford gas station owner, who declined to be identified, explained it this way: "We're not the only kid on the block. With these kinds of prices, even my loyal customers are going down the road to look for cheaper prices. People are shopping around."
So lower your prices or dry up and blow away like some did in the last round. No one cares that your family owned a station since 1937 or any other stupidity. You've lived as parasitic middle men for far too long. We need economies of scale.
Independent dealers get squeezed when prices rise because huge competitors such as Costco, Stop & Shop, Sam's Club and BJ's Wholesale Club can operate on smaller profit margins because of their size.
Yes. Aren't economies of scale wonderful ?
The price of crude oil, which drives gas prices at the pump, continues to rise due to fears of persistent turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa.
If you have ever seen who works in these markets, you'd know why they're scared. They have zero knowledge of what goes on in the world or any critical analytical skills of what they're being fed by their Globalist masters. They're all nerds or girlie men more concerned with their BMW's shine. It doesn't take much to make a economics or math geek jump. Try saying "boo !".
Between Feb. 15 and Feb. 28, wholesale prices went up 22 cents per gallon. During that same period retail prices went up 14 cents per gallon. Retailers had to eat that 8-cent difference, Guilford said.
Eat the difference ? Gas has gone up 25 to 50 cents in two weeks ! And yet the clueless medicated consumers interviewed right in this article (paying for their BMW gas by credit they'll never pay off anyway) have "resigned" themselves to being robbed by con artists who own gas stations.
"No one has ever seen anything like what's' going on in North Africa since the 1960s," Guilford said. "People are waking up one morning and not liking their dictator. It started in Tunisia, then it went to Egypt to Libya and Oman and Yemen."
What's going on ? Libya provided the rest of the world with 2 percent of its oil and the USA with zero. The increases are purely theft.
Those fears are reflected in the oil futures markets. "Commodity traders are concerned about what might happen, not what has happened — but what might happen," Guilford said.
That's the truest statement anyone has made about oil since 1973.
Chip Lyons, 54, who has owned the Phillips 66 gas station at 2526 Albany Ave. at Bishops Corner in West Hartford since 1979, said he's keeping tabs on the unrest that has rocked North Africa. But his biggest worry is that dissent could spread to Iran or Saudi Arabia, which control a large portion of the world's oil supply.
"God forbid they start demonstrating in the streets of Riyadh [Saudi Arabia]," Lyons said. "Oooooh, baby. Hold on tight. People are complaining about $3.59 a gallon? They'll be begging for $3.59 a gallon."
Hey Chip ! You're a thief. What do demonstrations have to do with oil facilities under military and private security guard ? You're a liar, too. Raise your price too much and you'll be begging for the unemployment (and disability or old age benefits) you now steal from others.
Matt Halverson, who has owned the Phillips 66 at 129 Willard Ave. in Newington since 1983, said the price he pays to a gas supplier jumped 12 cents while he was out having dinner with his wife.
"I watch CNBC all the time, and I watch the market going up, which it's doing again today," Halverson said. "It's just amazingly fast how quickly they pass it on to me. And then, of course, I have to pass it on to the customer."
There you have it. Matt, it's a future. You already own the gas in your tanks. Instead of preparing for what they feign to fear but will just pass on to you, Matt had to go have dinner with his wife and I'm guessing it wasn't at the Newington McDonald's. Matt can just pass along the inflated cost of his inflated meat dinner to you, the consumer. Maybe he can find a disabled person or an old person and kick them out of their wheelchair, just for fun.
According to the Department of Energy, if the price per barrel holds, it usually takes eight weeks for the full price to show up at the pump.
That's an utter lie dis-proven by watching any gas stations or gas price website. They react immediately, running outside or pressing a key to change the price by the time they receive word. Many have CNBC or other financial networks on as if to say "see !" to the American Idiot consumer.
Yahaira Cruz of Hartford doesn't blame local gas station owners for the soaring price of gasoline. Cruz, 31, has seen these kinds of price hikes before, and like many consumers, she's resigned to paying more.
"It's just the way it is," said Cruz, a two-car owner who has parked the flashy, but gas-guzzling BMW in favor of her second car, a late model Nissan Sentra that gets better gas mileage.
Yolanda (sic.) doesn't care because her credit card company is paying, not her.
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