07-05-2015, 02:07 AM
(07-05-2015, 02:03 AM)ChipBeck_imp Wrote: Gentlemen,
I'm a Chevron dealer and I'm currently paying 2.71 per gallon wholesale to buy Regular gas. There are stations all over Phoenix selling gas for 2.69, some as low as 2.61 per gallon. Lower than my wholesale cost. Bummer. My retail price is 2.99.
Chip
I believe it and I think it should be emphasized. Keep in mind that the EPA has REGIONAL REQUIREMENTS in terms of additives for emissions standards...and those cost. As does having a hundred different sorts of blends cost.
The profit to the oil companies was, when I researched it, 2008...eight cents a gallon. To the retailer, comparable or less.
That's why mom-and-pop service stations have disappeared. Goober and his family cannot make a living selling gasoline anymore. Only a chain of self-serve stations with minimal employees and cardreaders can show a profit...a razor-thin profit.
Where is all this money going? OPEC.