Posted on 11/19/2005 4:52:04 PM PST by new yorker 77
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The national average has fallen 68.2 cents since Oct. 7 to $2.250, but is still 29.9 cents higher than last year.
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That's really a stupid law.
"One thing I love is the law here in NJ that says we can't pump our own gas."
What happens if you try to pump your own gas? Do you get a ticket and have to take a driver's ed class?
In Hawaii, the Democrats are claiming credit for falling gas prices due to the gas cap laws they implemented. According to them, if it wasn't for the Hawaii gas cap law, gas prices wouldn't be falling here -- like they are everywhere else.
The newspapers are their biggest believers.
C'mon you CONgresspeoples! Let's be fair about this!! Hitlery hath spoken, saying "Earth could be fair!"
"When gas was $.50 and went up to $1, everybody screamed. When gas fell back to $.75 everybody cheered.
When gas was $1.75 and went up to $3.25, every body screamed. When gas fell back to $2.25, everybody cheered."
When your salary went from 6.50/hr to 10.50/hr for the same job, you cheered!
I paid $1.99 at a Shell station in Frederick MD the other day...and could have paid a dime less if I had gotten the carwash.
Are the gas companies still unconsionably gouging us?
Not a very good analogy. I have no problem that gas has gone up, I merely commented on the fashion that it does.
"What happens if you try to pump your own gas? Do you get a ticket and have to take a driver's ed class?"
If it is like Oregon, you will be visited by either a 57 YO total loser who is still trying to feed his family on 7.50/Hr or a 17 YO kid with zits growing out of zits clustered in crevasses caused by old zits and he, too, is trying to feed his 16YO tramp wife. Losers from loser states!
Saw it for $2.07 at Kroger and they offer a ten cents a gallon deal to regular customers.
""Where'd you pay $1.99? In Cape Girardeau, MO??? Are you Rush Limbaugh???""
Close, it was in North St.Louis County MO.
And no, I not Rush Limbaugh.... : )
Is that 2.28 9/10 or 2.29 9/10?
Is that 2.02 & 9/10 or 2.02. Is the highest 2.19 and 9/10ths or 2.19?
It was caught on video tape. Card locks are unattended...
My SIL has a fuse shorter than a defective Cherry Bomb so he reached into the car and grabbed the keys and threw them in a marsh across the street then proceeded to open a can of whoop @ss. A cab drove up and the punks girl friend jumped into the driver seat with a extra set of key and they drove off.
I filled up with 87 octane @2.17.9/gal last week.
Paid $2.089/ga for 87 octane here in CT yesterday
"Dear Yahoo!:
Why is gas priced to nine-tenths of a cent?
Nick L. Dimed
Dear Nick:
It does seem cruel. Everyone (well, almost everyone) buys gas no matter what it costs. So why do gas stations tease strung-out customers over a tenth of a cent? Is the industry run by evil hucksters? Perhaps, but that's not the reason for the unorthodox pricing.
Theories abound, but none are definitive. The Mail Tribune newspaper in Medford, Oregon, quotes Craig Randolph, an oil company's V.P. of retail operations. He says the nine-tenths of a cent is just a marketing gimmick that likely begun during the 1970 "gas wars." Over the years, it became the standard.
This site on Arizona gas prices offers a different theory. It argues that the precision of nine-tenths gives motorists a "false sense of accuracy" over their purchase. It goes on to state that this method of pricing "requires that almost all purchases be rounded to the nearest whole cent," which benefits oil companies.
Dr. James Madachy believes it's primarily a marketing thing ("It looks cheaper"), but acknowledges charging nine-tenths of a cent can be unfair to the consumer. According to Madachy, the state of Iowa "outlawed the practice for four years during the 1980s." However, the movement (if you can call it that) didn't have much success.
Gas stations are free to set prices however they see fit -- the nine-tenths isn't a tax regulated by the government. And as these photographs illustrate, they have the same practice north of the border, though the number after the decimal varies. "
http://ask.yahoo.com/20050915.html
I hope that clears it up for you!
/sarc
Heh. I'm paying over $3 a Gallon. They got as high as nearly $4 a Gallon here.
It's what I get for living in Canada.
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