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Diesel crooks
This is just a rant... Last night on my way home (8 pm)from work the Mobil near my house was 4.17 for diesel. Today at 5:30 am it was 4.29 for diesel. I know they didnt get a new delivery because they close at 9 pm and open at 5am. So I just wish there was a crackdown on the price control of these guys. So the Mobil station now jacked up the price 13 more cent per gallon on the old tank delivery. So i would say thats stealing from us the consumer. Any suggestions, who to call etc? I just had to get this off my chest today... jeff
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Originally Posted by hdman6
This is just a rant... Last night on my way home (8 pm)from work the Mobil near my house was 4.17 for diesel. Today at 5:30 am it was 4.29 for diesel. I know they didnt get a new delivery because they close at 9 pm and open at 5am. So I just wish there was a crackdown on the price control of these guys. So the Mobil station now jacked up the price 13 more cent per gallon on the old tank delivery. So i would say thats stealing from us the consumer. Any suggestions, who to call etc? I just had to get this off my chest today... jeff
Do you think grocery stores wait until they get a new delivery before they raise the price of anything?
Have you ever seen a sign at Lowes that says that this bundle of plywood from last week is $xxx a sheet but these bundles we got in yesterday are $xxx a sheet?
The fuel or whatever commodity is theirs untill they sell it, it really does not matter whether its on the shelf, in the tank, on a truck, in the pipeline, or at their warehouse. They sell it at the going rate on the date of sale.
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I understand the price going up during the week with the stock market reports per barrel. But on a Sat night? Seems the price goes up like a rocket but it sure does take 2 weeks to come down when the per barrel. We are just getting ripped, so what happens is they take as much from us as possible, and in turn when i install new windows in the owners house i do the same to them on the install fee. it's just a big circle jerk going on. Oh well.....
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Originally Posted by hdman6
I understand the price going up during the week with the stock market reports per barrel. But on a Sat night? Seems the price goes up like a rocket but it sure does take 2 weeks to come down when the per barrel. We are just getting ripped, so what happens is they take as much from us as possible, and in turn when i install new windows in the owners house i do the same to them on the install fee. it's just a big circle jerk going on. Oh well.....
Look at the new windows you buy to install like the price of crude oil. Its only one component in the installed price you charge which you adjust in order to make a profit.
If you had a supply of windows you bought would you sell them for less than what you know the next batch will cost you, especially when profit margins are slim and other factors effecting your cost of operation keep going up?
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Maybe Congress should look into the oil companies price gouging instead of steroids in baseball.
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What's so hard to understand about this mess. I dislike big oil right along with all of us. But if they're paying the camel jockeys about 2.40 a gallon for crude and getting it here and turning it into something we can use, now where can they cut their prices?
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I once read that the U.S. used 40% of the world's resources. Whether you want to believe than or not is up to you but it's probably not far from the truth. I'm sure that percentage is dropping now with India and especially China now vying for those same resources. It only stands to reason that supply and demand are going to be be driving prices ever higher. Hunker down, this world wide economic war is here to stay.
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