On 6/22/2011 1:14 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?


Evansville Shell Food Mart $3.52/gal they have higher taxes, about the
same property costs, about the same employee costs, the same fuel
transports costs, and higher levels of competition.

Oakland City Shell Food Mart 3.75/gal they have lower taxes, about the
same for property and employee costs, the same fuel transport costs they
haul their own fuel. Competition may be somewhat lower local, most folks
that live in Oakland City work in Evansville or Princeton where fuel is
cheaper.