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Aug. 14th, 2005 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cherryLivejournal claims that skip=60 puts me back to Thursday on my friendslist.
There is obviously something wrong with this picture. Anyone here do anything interesting this weekend? *G*
So, the price of gas.
Wednesday was 93.9 cents/litre. Thursday jumped to 99.9, which is where I filled my car at. By the time I left for Saskatoon on Friday, it was up to 105.9.
It's really not the gas stations' fault, because they don't make a profit on fuel. My family own a gas station, I know this -- if it weren't for confection sales, we wouldn't be keeping our heads above water.
105.9. Most of the gas stations I drove by didn't even have the price up, because they didn't have enough slots for the numbers.
You know it's bad when things are operating on a "If you need to ask, you can't afford to pay" basis.
There is obviously something wrong with this picture. Anyone here do anything interesting this weekend? *G*
So, the price of gas.
Wednesday was 93.9 cents/litre. Thursday jumped to 99.9, which is where I filled my car at. By the time I left for Saskatoon on Friday, it was up to 105.9.
It's really not the gas stations' fault, because they don't make a profit on fuel. My family own a gas station, I know this -- if it weren't for confection sales, we wouldn't be keeping our heads above water.
105.9. Most of the gas stations I drove by didn't even have the price up, because they didn't have enough slots for the numbers.
You know it's bad when things are operating on a "If you need to ask, you can't afford to pay" basis.
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Date: 2005-08-22 09:47 pm (UTC)I'll let you know when we hit the $2.00 mark. I'm waitin' for it...
And how's this for a rip-off? Gas is normally $1.30, but the Esso here charges an extra 2 cents PER LITRE to pump it for you!! And as if that wasn't irritating enough, our gas is purchased in bulk once a year. So theoretically our prices should only increase once a year right? WRONG... people have the audacity to increase their sale prices anyway even though it's not costing them anymore! Anticipation for the next hike in price? More likely gouging people who don't have much of a choice.
Yoi.
AJ
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Date: 2005-08-24 06:36 pm (UTC)The thing about gas dumps is that the oil companies adjust it backwards. When we get a dump of fuel, the next one is adjusted to what our selling price has been. I can't state that that's how it works up there, but it's what Shell does to us. Stations really do make only about a 2% profit.
I'm so looking forward to my lovely bus. Bet you they jacked the pass prices way up, though.