Coke dealer passes fuel costs on to customers

I was the 7th person in line. My husband called me and asked me if I need gas? I told him yes, I am almost on (E). He told me at first it was $1.99 for regular. When, I got there it was $2.99 for regular. That is still good. It was better then paying $3.55. So, I had them fill it up and they said there is free stuff to win and free pizza and they gave away coffee cups with LUKOIL on it. Plus they had the radio staion there getting people down to see there new business that just opened. Yesterday I just payed $3.41 in Salem, MA You had to paycash for that. You have to watch out for these other gas staion, it might be cheaper if you pay cash for gas. If, you used your credit card you will be paying much more at the pumps. That happened to me in Haverhill, MA I am always looking for the cheap gas price. Between Bradford and Andover line, they have a war going on there gas prices. It is only a penny or two less.

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Great story.

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The rest of the profit margin is the this-is-illegal-and-I-could-get-busted-at-any-time surcharge.

This photo of a gas station in Weimar, Germany was taken July 2008. Keep in mind the prices are in Euros!

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Diesel cars available in California now? At these prices, who cares how great of gas mileage they get.

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I'm use to seeing a price as something point something 3.999. But not in my summer travels. It was a flat $4.00 a gallon. Just grabbed this shot (my highest price for gas in May) while heading to Savannah, GA.

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When I first bought gas, it cost about 35 cents, and so did a loaf of bread. About 1980 we were all upset because mortgages were 19%, bread was about a buck, and so was gas. In 1999, my first tank of gas in my new truck cost $1.14 but a loaf of nice bread was 2 dollars. One Republican President later, gas is almost 4 dollars (or $4.66 at this Shell). A loaf of crappy bread is still 2 bucks but a loaf of nice bread is almost 4. People stuck between gas prices, paying the home mortgage, and putting food on the table are in a lot of pain. The President's friends are crying all the way to the (Swiss) bank. Sad. Really sad.

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This is a photo of the price sign at an Exxon station in Kingsville, Texas, on December 28, 1998. Regular unleaded for only 70.9¢/gal. My, how things have changed in only ten years.

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These pumps are from a long-closed Mobil station on TX 256 in Lesley, TX, which is located in the eastern Panhandle near Memphis in Hall County. The pumps appear to list prices of less than $1 per gallon which means this station has not pumped gas since the late 1970s.

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Heh heh. You just can't get a good deal on your coke anymore. Sheesh!

I hope my photo of an abandoned gas pump fits the story. It was taken in Trotters, ND. It's a ghost town on Highway 16 on the western edge of the state.

Service station located in Austell, GA; station has been closed for quite sometime, but the sign and reminder of reasonable prices still remains.

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This was a non-event when I took the photo. Simply a snapshot of small town America. The photo only became significant four and a half years later when the price of gasoline had risen meteorically. It is a nonrenewable resource...we would do well to remember that fact.

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Mountain View, CA

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This was scribbled above a gas pump in Bakersfield, CA. Ironically, the gas station's prices were lower than the average in town.

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This is a gas station in Reno, NV. Although the photo is a few months old, they are still charging an arm and a leg for their gasoline.

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This is actually the second picture this Summer of my closest gas station here in Monroe, Wa. This was to show it had actually DROPPED below $4 again.

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This was taken in Redwood City, CA in February or March of 2008. http://bottledwalter.wordpress.com

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I took this photo in June 2008 at what I hope was the peak of gas prices in our area. The prices were so high that a nearby gas station put up a sticker indicating pay at the pump limits. You know it costs too much when the store cannot even accept payment.

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It doesn't take a business major in college to tell the world that we are in a terrible situation in regards to our economy and with our dependance on oil.

Several people do not know why the gas prices are set the way they are, but its a simple rule of supply and demand. And the demand for oil only continues to rise when the prices are cheaper and it then balances it self out.

One thing to remember though, price per barrel is set at in a futures market. The gas you put in your car today was purchased approx. 2 weeks ago at that price. It called hedge funds and yep... you can guess who's buying the stock (rich people)

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First day the prices jumped to the $4 a gallon range. I was a little freaked out...

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This photo was taken on Memorial Day (5/30/2008) in Darby, Pa. A small borough located 15 miles south of Philadelphia. At the time I took this, I wandered how high gas prices would go. "Regular" gas was on the brink of topping the $4.00 gallon mark, which was something unprecedented at the time. It is now September, and since that time, I have seen this same sign fluctuate from as high as $4.15 for "Regular" gas to it's current price of $3.65(for "regular" gas)

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This photo was taken last Winter. As you can see gas price is at $1.00/litre. As of this writing, price is up by 13 cents/litre

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A shot taken of rising gas prices in southern Louisiana in May 2008.

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This photo seems so dated...I took it in November of '07, when gas (as I recall) was around $3 per gallon in the rest of the country, and at the entrance to Yosemite National Park, they were charging about 50% more than that. Capitalism, baby! (Actually, location, location, location...)

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This had to be a joke but with the gas shortage and price gouging I dont know how many people found it funny.

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I work as a photog at a mid-sized newspaper in Mattoon, Illinois. We were running an AP story on A1 on the rising gas prices and wanted to localize it with some art from our coverage area, a photo poll, and an audio slide show. So, I headed out with my camera and recorder that afternoon and came back with this and got it online that night, http://jg-tc.com/multimedia/20080630_Gas/ , plus the photos and interviews for the paper the following morning. I drove a bunch on this assignment, but atleast the paper covers some of the millage...

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