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Originally Posted by Ooper
Got gas at Walmamrt this morning... plenty of unleaded, no lines, empty pumps, drove right up and filled up, $2.73/gal if I remember correctly.
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Is the price for real--is it really $2.73/gallon in Oswego--or is it a typo? If real, that's pretty amazing! (We've been manipulated into thinking that gas at a price like this is 'cheap'....)
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Originally Posted by six year Villager
They raised the price of gas at the circle K on 466 by 24 cents in less than 12 hours. I thought that it was kind of strange since they didn't have low or middle octane gasoline. The finally went dry. I watched as folks put high octane gasoline in golf carts !!!!!The whole industry is one big rip off.
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"Ripoff" without a doubt. I am convinced that the whole market is cleverly manipulated by the oil companies in cahoots with OPEC (meaning mainly the Saudis), and we have to take responsibility for buying into whatever pushes the panic button.
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Originally Posted by billethkid
The Shell was out when I went to get gas this morning. The other one had lines to the curb. Went to Wildwood (I don't buy Chavez gas!). Interestingly the only station closed down for "out of service" was Shell (again). No problem at the other stations except some were high like $3.85.
I guess if there is one thing I do not like about TV, it is the hair trigger too many residents have. I knew when I saw the words FL...gas...shortage...in the morning's happy paper there would be a rush...and there was...and the operators here play the game for us!!!!
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"Chavez gas"? What's the problem with gas from Venezuela? Geez, I was bombarded with tons of mass circulating emails to buy
only CITGO as it's one of the few supplies of gasoline that does NOT come from our 'friends' the Saudis who also gave us fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 terrorists and as one of the prime participants in OPEC are among the most responsible for manipulation of the oil market that has resulted in, among other things, the price we pay today.
It is true, though, about that hair-trigger response, but it's true everywhere in this country, not just among residents of TV; it's a mentality that we've been nurtured to live by. Up north, when snow flurries are predicted, the supermarkets are mobbed with people buying a six month supply of toilet paper. Same mentality....