On 6/22/2011 12:14 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Rita and Neil writes:

Speaking of chain jerking:
Evansville $3.52/gal thirty miles North in Oakland City $3.75/gal same
company owns both Shell gas stations.


Does each station pay the same taxes, the same property costs, the same
employee costs? Fuel transportation costs? Do they both have the same
level of local competition?


Those variable count however normally not in the ultimate price at the
pump. It is very common for one station to be cheaper than its sister
station one week and higher than its sister station the next. Its a
strategy to increase traffic.
It is the classic, "what the market will bare" business plan.