old guy wrote:
diesel around the country is cheaper than gas in our town. the locals just lowered the price of gas today to 2.02. has been 2.11 for months. our town I think has the highest price for gas. the one thing that got us a few weeks ago is the price of gas in a neighboring town was 20 cents cheaper then here and the local gas delivery truck from our town was delivering gas to them. our gas station owners are price gouging us. last year the station owner in the neighboring town told us he could lower the price of gas 40 cents a gallon and still make a good living.
I heard lot of myths and you might never learn the real truth.
In my county the cheapest gas station also has liquor store.
From what I heard, they make about 2 cents profit on each gallon of gas, but would gladly give the gas at below the cost, just to get the customers buying liquor.
Than comparing downtown station to suburban.
Downtown commercial lot can cost $2 millions and property taxes will be proportional. Hard to compare to station build on $50k land.
Than you will have 2 stations on the same intersection having 20 cents price difference.
