TexomaPowerboater

My marina said they had a 40% drop in revenues - anybody see similar.....

yahoo

Thats why gas will only go over 5 for a short time with some kind of disruption in supply.

Its simple supply and demand, the consumer is not really willing to pay over 3 a gallon, they either dont go or find another mode of transportation.

So 5 gas will put alot of marinas in trouble.

Jupiter Sunsation

Yeah but the point of diesel is you have to buy much less so if it is 25 cents more but you only have to buy half as many gallons then you are way ahead in your wallet!

Tricky919

Last year i was getting fuel cheaper on the water than on land.....

NJgr8ful

Tricky,

I found ((very rarely ... couple times)) last year, while prices were phuckin rising soooo fast on land, that once in a while my marina would have purchased their last load 12-15K gals or something at a cheaper $$$ cost per gallon a few weeks prior and they in turn would continue to sell at their same price till the load was gone (unlike the CROOKS on the street who jump .10 - .25 cents every time the market sneezes and only on the UP side ,, never when going DOWN) Then the next load, whenever that was, would back up like .50 - 1.00 MORE a gal, once again.

I think the general statement that you were getting it cheaper on water than on land is a bit misleading and certainly not the case in 99.999999% of all marinas. And if this is the norm for you please post the marina name, you boat in NY/NJ area, I would be curious where this oasis of fuel is located!

Chris

fazznick

You dont know what your talking about. Most stations do the same thing. Our price doesnt go up untill we get a new load of fuel. We get a load once or twice a week and then prices change. Also competition drives gas to much lower prices and most stations sacrifice profit on gas to keep the inside sales they have. I am not a crook.

NJgr8ful

Once a week!!?????? Yeah right ... maybe you don't raise prices until next load, you must be the only one ... cuz here in Lanoka Harbor, NJ I've personally witnessed rises in prices twice in 1 day ... and regularly consecutive days in a row. Do ya think they got deliveries twice that day??? And why does it jump 3,4,5 consecutive days??? hmmmm And why does it go down a penny at a time over weeks, months, but go up in .02, .03, .05 even .10 jumps over 3-4 day period??

Keep dreamin you'll never convince me there is not gouging going on BIG time ... and I'm certainly not saying it is all at the end user service station level.

I guess you must own a land station LOL

Best Regards,
Chris

fazznick

I guess because you buy gas that you know everything. Just so you know, gas stations cost money, gas in the ground cost money, keeping the pumps up and running cost money, people paying with credit cards cost 3% of the sale. If you dont like that a gas station changes their prices too much don't buy there. I don't know one person who owns a gas station in kansas city, and I know a lot, that makes a significant profit on gas. I certainly do not. The only thing gas does is drive up customer counts and hopefully inside sales. Profits are on in the inside of the store, not at the pumps.

2112

I think most of know the volatility in our prices are mostly due to our national policy of not retrieving our own oil from our own reserves.

BGIII

iTrader: (3)

Exactly why I only go to pay at the pump gas stations. I will not go inside a gas station to purchase product no matter what. I'll never believe that gas stations aren't gouging either. Not even if God came down himself and told me that they are honest and caring corporate citizens that only make a small profit on sales. Certainly, some are much worse than others, but all are doing it to some extent. Hopefully the greed will eventually lead us to new energy sources and gasoline can go the way of the dinosaur for many of our applications.