Another gas price post?

Fun trick I thought up:
When you go to fill up your car, take a $100/$50 bill with you and use that to pay. When the guy bitches about the size, tell him not to charge so damn much for gas. What would happen if we ALL did this?...
The problem is that gas companies know we just put things on CREDIT/DEBIT and don't use REAL cash anymore. If we switched back to at least paying for GAS in CASH, it would force a situation in which a) prices would be forced to be lowered or b) gas stations would have to carry more cash which would make them a higher insurance/robbery risk than they were before.Insurance is a lot more expensive than gas. Encourage everyone you know to pay CASH for GAS wherever they get gas. Think about it...

 

i heard its supposed to get to $4 a gallon this summer.....wtf i say!!

 

Miss. Royal said it would be cheaper to call a taxi to go to work.

 

Trouble with that is when you fill up you're liable to get like $8 change from your $100.

The stations are the little guy on the food chain anyhow, you may as well go to Burger King and bitch that the combo meal costs $6. I worked in one for a while, the company tells them what price to charge - I don't even think the manager has any control over setting the pump price.

Truth is, I'm not sure there is a solution to the price of gas, because no matter where you go after it, there's not much we can do about it. It would take either a drastic change in OPEC lowering price and increasing production or the oil companies being able to drill in this hemisphere for new supplies, to drive the per-barrel price down. Even then, this country could use more refining capacity (it's pretty rediculous that one hurricane can cause a dollar per gallon increase 1500 miles away). The latter two involve fighting politician nutjobs more interested in pacifying environmental nutjobs and the first involves pacifying middle eastern anti-american nutjobs. I'm not sure how to do that, but it surely gets into a discussion for some other web board....

 

i pay for everything in cash. it's been a LONG time since the cashier gave me any grief about paying with a fiddy.

and busting the cashiers balls ain't gonna make gas any cheaper. neither is paying in cash. if anything the price will go up, it ain;t the gas STATIONS getting rich, it's the oil companies, duh.

oh, and our war? i ain't got no fuckin war. if it's your war, you go fight it. personally i don't care what gas costs, i DO care about where the money goes.

 

Gas is high and it stinks, but we still live in the best country in the world and there are plenty of people in the world who still wonder where there next meal will come from, so if my biggest concern is gas for my car I consider myself blessed. IMHO (my soap box is put away now)

 

Okay, just take it for what it is without making it political/sentimental,etc. It simple economics- gas stations couldn't afford to handle that much cash in one day, not mention everyday!
Please believe that gas prices are fixed locally. Think about it-we're not paying as much in Austin,Texas as they are in Houston, Dallas, etc...

 

i guess you've never heard of a drop safe. lots of businesses deal with lots of cash everyday.

 

holmes, you live in texas... that's like someone from wisconsin bitching about the price of cheese. (take this comment with a pile of salt)

i'm a slave to the oil industry,

 

LOL,,,,I love the comments. Especially since I work for one of the oil "Giants". The oil companies are not blamless by any stretch, but keep in mind this. Except for the less than 10% of all oil which is produced from the ground by oil companies, 90% of all oil is produced by others. There are, on average, about 35 "middle men" between the oil well head and the gas pump. Plus "ALL" oil is sold, so to speak, through the stock market. These middle men and the market is where the culprit is. And yes, count on it, gas will hit $3.00 by the middle of may and stay there through September when it wil drop significantly to $2.85 ....LOL

 

The fact is there aint a damn thing we can do to lower the cost of gas.We can bitch till the cow's come home .The price will come down when the oil company's get damn good and ready.I dont like it but that's the way it is and I drive 150 mile's a day so beleive me when I tell you I feel it.GREGG

 

High prices stink. You should have seen the low prices I saw in France last month... only 1.33!! That's right 1.33 right on the sign!!!!

Too bad that was euros per liter (about $6 US /gallon).

Sorry to bring the bad news people but when we as a nation (USA) burn every drop of gas we can get our hands on we aren't in a good bargaining position. That's life and it sucks.

 

I just want to know what a $100 bill is! I haven't seen one in so long I think I forgot!

 

some stations around here offer a discount for using cash. Credit card transactions are held for up to 30 days before the money is released to the station...basically the gas station is acting as a bank for you.