What makes the same oil company to sell the gasoline at different prices at the pump, even at places few blocks apart?

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Could be... A variety of things. The gas station owner’s profit on a gallon of gas is a few pennies and, unless they are the only station in town or have some other unusual advantage (like being the last station before the rental car return places in Miami or the only station for 60 miles on the interstate), they have to be competitive so they can’t push prices up to any substantial degree without losing all their business. 1.

The stations are probably in different ownership. You never really know who owns a gas station. Some (fewer all the time) are owned by the oil company itself.

Most are owned by independent franchisees who pay a fee to use the brand name. Some franchisees are big operators with lots of stations who get the economies of scale, others are solos who don’t. What a particular station charges for gas depends on what they pay for it (and other company branded products) and that is determined by their franchise agreement.2.

Depends on the type of station. If they just sell gas, oil and wiper fluid and make their money on that, the price will be higher. If they sell auto repairs and/or convenience store items, they may discount the gas or even sell it at a loss to bring in other business.3.

Advertising hype notwithstanding, gas is gas. It all comes out of the same local tank farm. Branded stations can charge a premium because the public is gullible and falls for the hype.

They think that a brand name gas will be better quality or give better performance. Some stations use that more than others. Check out the tanker trucks when they are delivering and see how many of them actually have brand names on them.

You won’t see many.4. Dump Stations. Tanker trucks carry a lot of gas.At the end of the day they have odd amounts of gas left in the truck that they can either "dump" or have to haul back to the tank farm when they go for the next load.

There are stations that will buy those odd lots (at a discount). They may or may not pass that on to the consumer.5. Local conditions.

Local taxes, utility charges and salary/benefit levels can vary enormously from town to town or county to county. Two Mobil stations a mile apart can be in different taxing or utility districts. Those charges get loaded into the price of the product.

The trick is to shop around and look for trends. I buy most of my gas at two stations. A little hole in the wall Getty station/convenience store and a Cumberland Farms mini-mart.

Both are routinely 10 to 15 cents a gallon cheaper than other stations in the area. I don’t know why specifically but they are consistently lower so I make a point of going to them rather than just picking stations at random. Sources: Four years working in gas stations and doing all the closings when Texaco sold all their company owned stations in Connecticut.

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Most... Most gas stations are franchises, and the prices are set by the individual franchise owners. If the station has a "Quicky-Mart" they can price their gas as low as they want, sometimes below cost. You see the profit margin on cigarettes, Cheetos, and Red Bull are astronomical.

Conversely if the station is at a busy location, like right off a freeway off-ramp, the landowners can charge premium rents for the land, leading to jacked up gas prices.

" "Iran- 2nd largest oil producer is denominating oil in Euros. What effect will this have on gasoline prices in the U. S" "I really don't understand recent gasoline pump prices.

Iran- 2nd largest oil producer is denominating oil in Euros. What effect will this have on gasoline prices in the U.S.

I really don't understand recent gasoline pump prices.

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Could be... A variety of things. The gas station owner’s profit on a gallon of gas is a few pennies and, unless they are the only station in town or have some other unusual advantage (like being the last station before the rental car return places in Miami or the only station for 60 miles on the interstate), they have to be competitive so they can’t push prices up to any substantial degree without losing all their business. 1.

The stations are probably in different ownership. You never really know who owns a gas station. Some (fewer all the time) are owned by the oil company itself.

Most are owned by independent franchisees who pay a fee to use the brand name. Some franchisees are big operators with lots of stations who get the economies of scale, others are solos who don’t. What a particular station charges for gas depends on what they pay for it (and other company branded products) and that is determined by their franchise agreement.

2. Depends on the type of station. If they just sell gas, oil and wiper fluid and make their money on that, the price will be higher.

If they sell auto repairs and/or convenience store items, they may discount the gas or even sell it at a loss to bring in other business. 3. Advertising hype notwithstanding, gas is gas.

It all comes out of the same local tank farm. Branded stations can charge a premium because the public is gullible and falls for the hype. They think that a brand name gas will be better quality or give better performance.

Some stations use that more than others. Check out the tanker trucks when they are delivering and see how many of them actually have brand names on them. You won’t see many.

4. Dump Stations. Tanker trucks carry a lot of gas.

At the end of the day they have odd amounts of gas left in the truck that they can either "dump" or have to haul back to the tank farm when they go for the next load. There are stations that will buy those odd lots (at a discount). They may or may not pass that on to the consumer.

5. Local conditions. Local taxes, utility charges and salary/benefit levels can vary enormously from town to town or county to county.

Two Mobil stations a mile apart can be in different taxing or utility districts. Those charges get loaded into the price of the product. The trick is to shop around and look for trends.

I buy most of my gas at two stations. A little hole in the wall Getty station/convenience store and a Cumberland Farms mini-mart. Both are routinely 10 to 15 cents a gallon cheaper than other stations in the area.

I don’t know why specifically but they are consistently lower so I make a point of going to them rather than just picking stations at random. Sources: Four years working in gas stations and doing all the closings when Texaco sold all their company owned stations in Connecticut. JBENZ's Recommendations Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta (Nation Books) Amazon List Price: $11.95 Used from: $4.64 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 76 reviews) Crude Politics : How Bush's Oil Cronies Hijacked the War on Terrorism Amazon List Price: $24.99 Used from: $6.49 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 7 reviews) .

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