Posted on 03/13/2015 10:44:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Marin has always been one of those picture-perfect areas that can do no wrong.
Until now.
Like many other Yelpers/commuters, we, too, are both puzzled and a little pissed about how much this Sausalito gas station is charging drivers for a tank of gasoline.
We contacted Bridgeway Gas Station a few times to find out what's up with the increased prices, but nobody will pick up the phone over there. So we turned to oil price expert Severin Borenstein who confirms that this certainly is a way to not sell gasoline.
"Obviously, he isn't planning on selling much gasoline and when he does, he sells to people desperate and not paying attention," says Borenstein, director of the University of California Energy Institute. "But this is not a viable strategy for keeping a gas station open."
Usually, when gas stations do jack up prices to surreal amounts, it has more to do with gas stations being at odds with refineries over wholesale pricing. But a Bridgeway isn't a branded gas station, thus it's more than likely getting its gas on the spot market and not paying high prices for it, Borenstein tells us.
That leaves Borenstein equally as baffled by this business strategy. Could it be a way to hose tourists passing through? "Even tourist will skip it at that price. So then why are you in the gasoline business at all? Boresntein says. "Maybe he won't be for long."
Probably not, with 1-star reviews like these:
“Buy ten gallons and you get a free lube job.”
At that price, “lube” better be a euphemism for something else.
I believe the proper term from the Brits is “the right crowd and no crowding”
How does Starbux work?
I sure as heck can’t understand it.
I don’t go there but my wife gave me an assignment to get some gift cards at Christmas time.
There’s a friggin’ line out the door, it looked like the Apple Store at the mall.
Agree, a brilliant way to make money for sure.
Diesel - 1980.
Someone should tell Dutch people that people from San Francisco don’t like it being called Frisco.
In basic training, the d.i. liked to call all of us, "dumass". We didn't necessarily like it but he did it anyway.
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