I have never, ever understood this. Gas is for the most part is a simple commodity. Sure, some prefer a premium brand (like Shell) to a cheaper one (like ARCO), but I can’t for the life of me figure out why there is such a wide variance even within a single mile or two of a city (and amongst the same brand!) I would think that supply and demand would reign supreme here. It’s the same stuff.
You get that one gas station that charges $0.10 less than all the others in the area and the lines are out to the street.
So where are supply and demand?
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where I live a gallon of gas is 3.959 a gallon, it takes about 11 gallons to fill my gas tank, or about 43.55
the cheep gas gas station is 3.859 a gallon to buy that same 11 gallons to fill my gas tank it cost 42. 45
this makes for a $1.10 different to fill my gas tank or about 2.6 %
a half gallon of almond milk at the local store in a town 22 miles a way ( I live in the sticks) Is 4.12after taxes.
at Walmart the same half gallon of almond milk is 3.74 in the same town this makes a 9.2 % price Variation, or nearly 4 times the price difference as gas for the cheep gas to the expensive gas.
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