Has anyone noticed the price of gasoline has been coming down lately? Does anyone know why? I can't say for sure, but I have a fairly good idea how it's come about.
For months, whenever I go to the gas station, I only get a few gallons at a time. Sure, I can buy a tankful and drive a lot longer before I fill up again, but the logic is simple. I can't buy less gas than I need, so I just buy it in smaller quantities more often. This means instead of buying 20 gallons, when I stop, I just get 3. If more people did this, which I'm sure they do, the gas stations will ultimately sell less gas and the delivery trucks will come less often. This, in turn, will cause an over-supply for the distributers. And the refineries keep refining gas, non-stop. Before long, they have too much gasoline on their hands, and have to get rid of their supply in order to take in more from the refineries. It's basic supply and demand. They have an overabundance of fuel right now so they have to lower the price to sell it.
I like to make a game of it. I fly into the gas station to get my gas. Usually, the other pumps have SUV's and other cars already pumping gas into their massive tanks. I get out and squeeze a in few drops and tear out of there like I just did a pit stop at the Indy 500, leaving the idiots, who insist on topping off their tanks, still at the pumps. Always, always, always I'm the last one in and the first one out and I'm on the road well before any of them. Ya just don't NEED that much gas. If your car gets 20 mpg you can go 60 miles before you need to look for fuel. Besides, if you fill up your tank with gas that costs $2.69 you won't be able to take advantage of gas at another that might have a much lower cost.
Ok, so ya got yourself a gas guzzling SUV. Are you so lazy you have to shell out $90 on a fill up in one shot just so you don't have to get your fat ass out of your car more than once a week? Why not spread it around? Get a few gallons at this station and a few at the next one. The results are the same but you've done something about the high gas prices by buying what you need instead of what your car can hold. And the refineries keep pumping out the gas.
I say keep thier feet to the fire and don't be fooled by the lower prices. They just want you to fill your tanks again so they can reduce their gasoline glut so they can raise the prices, and they WILL raise the prices.
If we get in the habit of only buying what we need and keep doing this, you'll see the prices drop well below $1.00 a gallon. Isn't that what we all want?
Thursday, September 21, 2006
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Fan mail from some trolls? This is what I really call a message!
Now, let me get this straight. (since my IQ is less than 3) Because I suggested a possible way for all of us to collectively try to lower the cost of gasoline by buying what we need instead of all we can in an attempt to tip the scales of supply and demand in our favor, my thinking is totally wrong and I'm an asshole wasting everyone else's time and bandwidth? Is that your point? Or are you upset that I didn't include a variety of other reasons to account for the lower costs? Is that the extent of your rational thoughts?
Well, I have a few rational thoughts about you. For starters, you don't know me. You know nothing about me or my lifestyle, therefore, there's no sense of reason or accountability in what you write.
You're materialistic and fixated on money and income. (I'm guessing you work for tips searving people with money and you hate it.) You assume, wrongly so, that if I make more money and do less drugs the rest of your ilk might take my conclusions to heart, as if I care.
I think you're a woman who probably hates men because she was dumped one too many times or can't get a guy unless you promise them beer and sex, and that's just for a one night stand.
It seems to me what you wrote was more designed as a personal attack rather than an attempt to debate an issue. Are you so limited that you can't bring to the table anything but your own self loathing and hatred of men?
All joking aside, what do you do for a living? Are you an economist or something? You seem so mercifully free from the ravages of intelligence I just naturally assume you're an acedemic burn-out and aren't part of the real world.
I went through this kind of insane crap before with a boarderline psychotic from Philly, and no way am I going to allow this blog to become a battlefield for stupid people, such as yourself, to throw lame insults.
If you want to talk about issues, we'll talk. If you want to vent your venom you can email me. But if you insist on trolling this site like some demented two year old with an overactive thyroid I'll block you. Ya got that rotindreams?
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