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Originally posted by sammyg2
MYTHBUSTERS to the rescue:
98% of all gas stations in the good ole US of A are independently owned and operated. As in, they are not owned by the big bad oil companies.
If you don't like the prices at the corner station chances are the owner is to blame, not the oil companies.
Yep, it's your neighbor down the street who owns that station who is to blame for ripping you off, not the oil company. Put the blame where it belongs.
Don't start saying that it's OK because he has a right to make a living either.
The gas station owner makes a gross profit typically 20 times as large as the profit the oil refinery gets to make the gas. He typically makes 20 times as much on every gallon as the big bad oil company.
Please, lets stop pretending that the oil companies are controlling the retail prices. they simply are not. Saying they do either proves you don't understand, or that you are trying to decieve.
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Talk about "trying to deceive"!
"The gas station owner makes a gross profit typically 20 times as large as the profit the oil refinery gets to make the gas. He typically makes 20 times as much on every gallon as the big bad oil company."
Gross profit is meaningless; why don't you be honest and talk about the station owners'
net profit from fuel sales???
You won't go there because (for some reason) you seem to want to vilify the station owners and know that they net virtually nothing from their fuel sales, so you give this deceptive crap about "gross profit."