[j-monster]

I just filled up my Pontiac Grand PrixGT... $75 bucks!!! This sucks ass!!!

hock: :x :x :x

I feel your pain... but if it makes you feel any better I'd like to nominate your post as "best use of emoticons EVER!" :thumb:

[skippy the wonder dog]

when i was working at a petro canada about 3 years ago, my manager had no influence over the price, we had to call some phone number and punch in the price of our competitors and then the automated voice would tell us how much our gas would be (usually just matching the competition)

That's more or less it - unless you're an independent station, the guy running the gas station has no control over the price. Either it's dictated to them over the telephone, or they're given a pair of binos and told to match the station down the street.

This is why I giggle at the line that gas prices are driven by competition: it ain't competition when all the competitors put their prices up to the same price at the same time.

Gas prices are driven by gas futures.

[Lizard King]

The only questions I have now is, will Gas prices eventually come down? And at what price will it eventually settle at, is it possible for the price to ever go below 90 again or is this it?

[cferneyh]

The only questions I have now is, will Gas prices eventually come down? And at what price will it eventually settle at, is it possible for the price to ever go below 90 again or is this it?

I'm no economist, but I doubt it - not without gov't intervention.

To quote The Hives: Supply and Demand.

[schaggs]

Right now, it's all about B20 biodiesel..... 4 stations in Ontario, and most diesels don't need modifications to use it. $0.95 a litre at last check....

[]V[ANTIS]

looking back, buying the diesel golf was a great investment...1000K/tank!

[robert goulet]

To quote The Hives: Supply and Demand.

Or to quote Ricky from TPB...."It's all about supply and command" One of his finest!! Right up there with "It's like denial and error" and "It's a fu*king catch 23"

Goulet!!!

[Stephen Dame]

Gas prices are driven by gas futures.

I think you can add stubborness from nation states; exploration, reserve use, promotion of alternatives and dealing with "good" and "bad" suppliers (Saudi's=buddies while Chavez, for some reason=devil), and multi-national profiteering; Western consumption and car culture drive those futures... and good old fashioned collusion.

Where's Bart Giamatti when ya need him?