Monday, June 04, 2007

Gas

The next time you drive down the highway and you see gas prices at one station way lower then you expect... Any typical American would move their foot from the gas pedal to the break, look at their gas situation... and decide whether or not to buy gas at this cheap place...

Quite often we might drive to one particular gas station to obtain our gallons of gasoline...

But look where that left us, by only buying gas at a certain station, the gas stations slowly dwindled in competitive areas... Competitive pricing is no longer one of their plans of the oil industry as they start to work together at setting prices in certain areas... Competitive pricing is still going on to a point, and its not too late for us to make a difference in this gas consumption war.

Now instead of buying gas all the time at the cheapest location every single time, i think its our duty to buy gas that might be two cents more then the cheapest gas... To be honest we need to keep competition in the gas industry, or we'll have places like sheetz who buy the cheapest gas they can (with a slightly higher water content) and get an over all worse product... All because we wanted to save a few cents....

The funny thing is, were now paying the same amount for this cheap gas now as a quality gas product. ultra low quality gas, or gas that's able to just run are cars is now being made readily available and you have to buy fuel cleaner just to make sure your gas is alright... I say, the low quality gas stations are good for competition, but keep buying the better quality gas so it stays in America...

We need a mix of both and not overindulgence in either...

The only way to truly keep gas prices low, is to keep the gas stations open where competition is fierce... If you see a station struggling across the street, don't just let it go... because in a few years your gas station you spent all that money at will charge more then what the other one would have...

Another thing we should do is get rid of one of the grades of gasoline, maybe instead creating two products of gas that are in between low and mid and mid and high...

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