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Lendaddy is right...fuel is a volume business...much like grocery stores.

If you really have an issue with fuel prices, talk to your politicians. A gallon of unleaded on the spot market for arguments sake can cost .80 (which includes the Big Oil Company's profit mind you) but with the additional of TAXES, it is driven up to perhaps 1.40. Add the stations profit of about .02 to .03 a gallon and you get a final price.

This is a very basic example, but you get the idea. About 50% of the cost of a gallon of gas is are the added taxes...you know, to pay of the clogged roadways, piss poor engineering of some of our highways, potholes, etc.
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