Strategic oil reserve fuel in my Prevost?

[luvrbus]

Stations that paid the high prices need to sell the existing fuel before they can drop prices is why it varies so much it hurts the little guys

[belfert]

Fuel stations will say they have to raise prices because the next tank will cost more, but when prices go down they say they can't lower prices because they paid more for the fuel in the tank.  How come they can have it both ways?  If prices go up because the next tank will cost more then shouldn't prices go down when the next tank will cost less?

[Jim Blackwood]

That's kinda like asking the government to lower taxes. You'll get a lot of smoke blown up your backside but that's all that will happen.

Jim

[richard5933]

Fuel stations will say they have to raise prices because the next tank will cost more, but when prices go down they say they can't lower prices because they paid more for the fuel in the tank.  How come they can have it both ways?  If prices go up because the next tank will cost more then shouldn't prices go down when the next tank will cost less?

They raise prices at the pump because they can.

They don't lower them because they don't have to.

We buy the fuel either way.

[Busted Knuckle]

$2.95 a gallon @ several places in Paris, TN! (of course right after I fueled up Sat. @ $3.16 in the same place!)
  BK 

[TomC]

Let's see-the USA uses 21 million barrels of Petroleum per day. The current occupant of the White House released 50 million barrels of Petroleum. Gee-that works out to be 2.5 days worth of Petroleum. Yep-that's going to REALLY help. Good Luck, TomC

[richard5933]

Wasn't the US acting alone on this. The release was done in conjunction with China, India, South Korea, Japan and Britain. Best I can tell prices have dropped since then, but of course there is no way to know how much is due to the strategic release and how much to other market conditions.

[luvrbus]

Don't be to hard on fuel stops because when your setting on 30,000 gals of gasoline and 10,000 gals of diesel you a  loose your @$# when you paid $3.50 a gal and it drops to $3.00 but if you buy @$3.00 and goes up to $3.50 you make a little.Its a balancing act you call before 10:am get the price and order or wait, prices can change both ways between 10:am and 4:pm.The prices your seeing today is for $50.00 a barrel of oil lol it closed today @72.50 a barrel ,so that means if Joe replaced the 50,000 barrels today the tax payers will take a hit for a few days of cheaper fuel.Production drives the price down and they stopped a lot of it.Fuel in Needles CA today when we went to eat lunch was $5.69 to $5.99 lol how about 100 gals of that 

[chessie4905]

Opec was considering another production cut to counteract the reserves released. Not sure whether they will follow through.

[Van]

Don't be to hard on fuel stops because when your setting on 30,000 gals of gasoline and 10,000 gals of diesel you a  loose your @$# when you paid $3.50 a gal and it drops to $3.00 but if you buy @$3.00 and goes up to $3.50 you make a little.Its a balancing act you call before 10:am get the price and order or wait, prices can change both ways between 10:am and 4:pm.The prices your seeing today is for $50.00 a barrel of oil lol it closed today @72.50 a barrel ,so that means if Joe replaced the 50,000 barrels today the tax payers will take a hit for a few days of cheaper fuel.Production drives the price down and they stopped a lot of it.Fuel in Needles CA today when we went to eat lunch was $5.69 to $5.99 lol how about 100 gals of that

I love how eastbound I-10 Broadway exit in Needles dumps the motorists that forgot to fuel up in Barstow right at that Shell station. $5.99 Lol! when you could scoot over the bridge into Az to get you some of that cheaper fuel

[richard5933]

I love how eastbound I-10 Broadway exit in Needles dumps the motorists that forgot to fuel up in Barstow right at that Shell station. $5.99 Lol! when you could scoot over the bridge into Az to get you some of that cheaper fuel

I think there are stations like that all over the place - putting a fuel stop where the need is high and the supply is low is a great choice. We have a few places here in SE Wisconsin where the one convenient station to a freeway exit charges considerably more than one a short drive away.

Still not sure what makes fuel so expensive out by you guys - that $5.99/gal price is double what we pay here. It's making the snow and cold look like less of a hassle every day.

[belfert]

In 2002 when gas was first getting expensive we stopped at the first station in some town in Wyoming.  Gas was something like $1.70 per gallon at that station which was outrageous at the time.  We decided not to fill up there and went to the next exit for that town or something and found gas for less than $1.50 per gallon.  I think the first station was taking advantage of drivers who needed gas and just stopped at the first station they could find.  We didn't have smartphones and all that to monitor gas prices on the go back then.

[chessie4905]

Gas buddy app. saved us a lot of money this summer. Granted places didn't  all accommodate a coach, but many did. The fuel card is the most popular one, but its still quite useful especially for your non coach vehicles.

[luvrbus]

Our fuel in Az is not anymore exspensive than other states,in Ca the price sucks, ,price depends on lots of things with the new EPA rules installing tanks in concrete valults with a monitoring systems really sucks building a station it adds a bundle to the cost of building and has to be paid for.Old stations with 2000 gal tanks pay the same delivery price as one holding 9000 gals and they pass it on   

[windtrader]

The map below shows the obvious about CA prices. Guess it just shows on special we in CA really are. We really are special and get to pay special prices. 


The regs on storage tanks you seeing in AZ at the Fed level is old stuff out here. So many older corner stations on prime property shuttered up when they shuttered at the cost to bring up the new tanks to current CAazi CARB rules. I think they now want double lined stainless. jk