Its getting ridiculous

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In many states (including mine), consumer protection laws provide for recovery of attorney's fees and, in some cases, double or triple damages. If the case could be proven and won, it's likely my net cost would be nothing and I might even make money on the deal. The trick is winning the case, I imagine - it's not a "slam dunk".



I was actually restating a claim from the first link I posted. Thanks for providing the additional information and cites, and it does appear the first link got it wrong, or I inferred more than they meant from their wording.



Understood and agreed, based on the info you provided.



Agreed - and even if one has a "slam dunk" case, court seems to always be a bit of a crap shoot. I like low risk :-)

Always a pleasure to have a good conversation. Learned a lot myself.

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Unfortunatley there are too many variables currently going on in Europe to offer up a price as refineries have all but shut down and switched over to diesel production as more vehicles in europe are diesel vs gas.

Another question for you, Tommy. The university where I teach is in the central part of the state, in a small college town. Current gas prices range from $3.62 to $3.69. My home is in the western part of the state, in a larger city, and prices are in the $3.75 to $3.95 range. This is a typical "spread" for pricing.

I had always heard that the transportation cost accounted for most of the variation in pricing, but that doesn't make sense in this case. The larger city is on a deep, accessible river with good commercial ports and gasoline is brought in by barge or ship - cheap shipping. The college town is not near any bodies of water, and gasoline has to be trucked in - so transportation cost is higher, not lower, but gas prices are lower.

Doesn't make sense to me - do you have an explanation for the contradiction?

Thanks.

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Lots of the time or should I say most of the time if you live in a larger metropolitan area you will always pay higher prices as the marketers can rely on higher incomes in that area to accomodate for higher profits even tho transportation cost are invariably lower,Its all about greed in this country and as I stated earlier trying to keep the corporate profits up for shareholders and Mgmt. salaries. Its essentially gouging the incomes of folks that have no alternatives to gasoline combusted engines. One day far and in a distant future folks will be driven by something other than gasoline combustion engines maybe and perhaps save the planet as well,but for the foreseeable future we are in the demise of our own choosing because we have no other viable alternatives. I wonder what would happen tho if say everyone filled up 1 day a week and I mean everyone and the didn't purchase any gas for the rest of the week,would corporations realize their greed for profits could become their downfall if they continue to increase profits over manufacture capabilitys to reduce pricing to make it more affordable so folks could buy gas at a relatively cheaper cost and realize the need for increased production facilitys,go back and retrofit those refinerys to increase production and reduce cost to the consumer who could then spend money elsewhere and generate new growth throughout the country instead of just the big oil guys and their shareholders