If I charged gas $5 at a time.

[Nebor]

Those aren't real celebrities. Real celebrities eat at decent restaurants.

Unless they're hiding, then some actually at normal and wait, or go at off hours.

Having lived in California my entire life, I've never had a celebrity steal my table. Most of them are trying to lay low while out in public.

There's another thing to loooove about California. It's full of people that think they're better than us "fly over types," and that Chili's and Outback aren't some of the best restaurants in the country. If they're so awful, Willem Dafoe, why are there so dang many of them?

 

[Corporate Thug]

CA is near the bottom of my list for places to live in the USA. Cheer up though. You rank higher than NJ and FL :^D

great, stay the fuck out and everyone wins.

 

[brianmanahan]

hmm, at 400k$ per year, you could buy quite a bit of gallons

 

[brianmanahan]

Because California is full of idiots. I thought we already covered that. Srsly, keep up.

+9000

 

[yottabit]

Everyone ring up gas $5 at a time globally...

Flush all the toilets in your office complex simultaneously...

Use all 7682 mb of your GMAIL space...

Let's see just how far we can take this people

 

[rh71]

high wages, low gas prices, low unemployment, Mountains, lots of public land that i can use, a well run, non-deficit spending government, low utility cost, no income tax, ...... i could go on.

cons: lack of trees.

no income tax? Wow, how does that work??????? And how high are high wages?

Use all 7682 mb of your GMAIL space...

Damnit Google, I thought I was special!

 

[rh71]

LoL at all those soccer moms with huge suv's riding by themselves.

Those soccer moms are either going to get their kids from dance or going shopping for their kids. You think these little women chose to drive huge cars for the looks? You cannot fit more than 2 regulation car seats in a regular passenger vehicle. And then you have no space for anyone else. These laws didn't exist in the past - I sat in the front bench of my dad's TransAm / Cutlass Supreme. This is mostly why there are more large vehicles out there now... and yes, moms drive them. Why don't you buy them a smaller secondary vehicle for when their kids are not with them? I mean it makes perfect sense to spend more money in order to save money...

 

[SirStev0]

They will survive.

BTW alot of the price is NY tax. The stations don't really have a say in it.

And wait until Memorial Day. Prices are expected to eclipse the $5 mark. Thanks Barack!

Interesting, since most people are fucking stupid and don't understand economics at all, gas prices would and should rise as the economy gets better because there will be more demand for it in manufacturing etc..

Gas prices should go down in a shitty economy because the demands would be less, however, because we let investors do whatever the fuck they want, speculation is completely out of control, and they all realized that no matter what they charge we are still 1000% hooked meaning profits out the ass.. gas prices will always suck.

In Europe gas prices suck but in theory they get it back with their amazing healthcare and other social services, whereas here it just wallpaper some investors or ceo's goldlined sex dungeon.

 

[Ichinisan]

In Europe gas prices suck but in theory they get it back with their amazing healthcare and other social services, ...

Europe's healthcare is not "amazing."

...and reduced demand in the US isn't going to affect gasoline prices much while China is still growing and buying all the gasoline they can get.

 

[Train]

...while China is still growing and buying all the gasoline they can get.

China is growing gas? Holy shit.

 

[dmcowen674]

Over $5 at some Los Angeles stations already

http://www.losangelesgasprices.com/

Guys on AT are going to faint when national average crosses $5

Dave's drive for five has arrived

 

[sdifox]

Hence why a lot of stations advertise cash prices and credit prices are .10 higher. Most station owners make .01-.015 per gallon if they're lucky.

Plus there's a reason Jersey is usually .30-.40 cheaper, the 10% tax NY imposes. This state sucks sometimes.

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as I understand the ny gas tax goes mostly towards public transit and road infrastructure.

 

[lxskllr]

as I understand the ny gas tax goes mostly towards public transit and road infrastructure.

I bet it doesn't. I've seen the roads up there :^D

 

[Kev]

Charging a little at a time MINIMIZES the cost to the gas station. In actuality, the higher the price of gas, the less stations profit when people charge.

When someone charges, the station pays a transaction fee (small, like 30 cents) plus a percentage of the total, probably 2%. However, the markup on gas is typically in cents per gallon - often 10 cents.

So when gas is $3/gallon, a 15 gallon fillup for $45 costs the station 30 cents plus 2% of $45, for a total of $1.20. That works out to 8 cents per gallon.

When gas is $4/gallon, that 15 gallon fillup comes to $60. It costs the station 30 cents plus 2% of $60 for a total of $1.50. That comes to 10 cents per gallon in cost.

When gas is $5/gallon, the 15 gallon purchase costs $75. Cost to the station is 30 cents plus 2% of $57, a total of $1.80. That works out to 12 cents per gallon.

Remember the average markup is 10 cents per gallon. The bigger the gas purchase, the less profit the station makes - and can be a loss if their fees are higher than what I used as an example.

This is a major reason why gas prices shoot up quickly and drop slowly. The stations are trying to make up for the greater costs they paid when gas was higher.

Yeah but isn't his point to try to make them pay the transaction fee over and over? So if you bought 1 gallon at a time @ $5 per gallon, that would cost the gas station .30 + .02(5) = 40 cents. so 15 gallons charged this way would cost $6.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Over and over...would it kill a gas station with fees? Stations here in NY are going batshit insane with gas ($4.49 for premium) and I am looking for a way to fuck them over.

Will this work to screw them with credit card fees?

The only thing this will accomplish is you spending more of your time at the gas station.

That's it.

Their merchant fees are a % of monthly sales so if you spend $100 there with 2 transactions or 50 it makes no difference to their bottom line.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Ah well that sucks. Got to be an easier way to screw them.

Commute by bicycle?

 

[McWatt]

He does everything he can to hamper supply. Just this month he stopped the Keystone XL pipeline.

Domestic production increased more in 3 years of Obama than in the previous 8 years of Bush.

 

[rh71]

I bet it doesn't. I've seen the roads up there :^D

NYC roads are HORRIBLE. LI roads - it really depends on the town. Ours got a major road completely repaved. As soon as you hit the town line, it was left alone. I don't know why because we are funding a few towns together and that was one of them. Upstate NY roads... well I'm sure the weather plays a big part.