WV1K: Gas stations part of the problem yet whine to media

Monday, March 07, 2011

Gas stations part of the problem yet whine to media

Gas stations add virtually no value to what they sell. They're like a soda dispenser in a fast food restaurant.

So where do they get off soliciting the Hartford Courant to write this kind of "we're in it together" nonsense ?

Rising Gas Prices Hurt Consumers And Station Owners

Does anyone actually care if a millionaire station owner is "hurt" or sees his profits squeezed ?

Go look up the word "profit."

According to Webster's:

Definition of PROFIT
1
: a valuable return : gain
2
: the excess of returns over expenditure in a transaction or series of transactions; especially : the excess of the selling price of goods over their cost
3
: net income usually for a given period of time
4
: the ratio of profit for a given year to the amount of capital invested or to the value of sales
5
: the compensation accruing to entrepreneurs for the assumption of risk in business enterprise as distinguished from wages or rent

Does someone who was maimed by Merck and had an Empire taken from them by these Globalist Germans and Globalist Jews (as opposed to private citizens) give a damn about the money the gas station owner, the corporation and the puppet dictators in the Middle East get from causing arbitrary and capricious price fluctuations ? Suckers like those in this article then resign themselves to them.

Consumers aren't happy, but some said last week they're resigned to the increases, which, at least for the time being, are far lower than the spike of 2008.

But gas station owners are being squeezed, and losing profits.

Poor babies. Go protest to the corporations filling your bunkers, not to the public and the media that's all too willing to humor you.

"The retailers right now are really taking it on the chin; gas prices are going up too quickly — overnight. That's the kind of thing that kills them; they can't raise retail prices that high and be competitive," said Gene Guilford, president of the Independent Connecticut Petroleum Association, which represents retailers. "They'd rather sell you a $2 cup of coffee than a gallon of gas. They make more money on the coffee."

The gas prices aren't going up. That's a lie. The gas in the tank was already paid for and delivered. The price cannot go up on something you already own. That's like saying the gas you have in your car tank has also gone up.

A West Hartford gas station owner, who declined to be identified, explained it this way: "We're not the only kid on the block. With these kinds of prices, even my loyal customers are going down the road to look for cheaper prices. People are shopping around."

So lower your prices or dry up and blow away like some did in the last round. No one cares that your family owned a station since 1937 or any other stupidity. You've lived as parasitic middle men for far too long. We need economies of scale.

Independent dealers get squeezed when prices rise because huge competitors such as Costco, Stop & Shop, Sam's Club and BJ's Wholesale Club can operate on smaller profit margins because of their size.

Yes. Aren't economies of scale wonderful ?

The price of crude oil, which drives gas prices at the pump, continues to rise due to fears of persistent turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa.

If you have ever seen who works in these markets, you'd know why they're scared. They have zero knowledge of what goes on in the world or any critical analytical skills of what they're being fed by their Globalist masters. They're all nerds or girlie men more concerned with their BMW's shine. It doesn't take much to make a economics or math geek jump. Try saying "boo !".

Between Feb. 15 and Feb. 28, wholesale prices went up 22 cents per gallon. During that same period retail prices went up 14 cents per gallon. Retailers had to eat that 8-cent difference, Guilford said.

Eat the difference ? Gas has gone up 25 to 50 cents in two weeks ! And yet the clueless medicated consumers interviewed right in this article (paying for their BMW gas by credit they'll never pay off anyway) have "resigned" themselves to being robbed by con artists who own gas stations.

"No one has ever seen anything like what's' going on in North Africa since the 1960s," Guilford said. "People are waking up one morning and not liking their dictator. It started in Tunisia, then it went to Egypt to Libya and Oman and Yemen."

What's going on ? Libya provided the rest of the world with 2 percent of its oil and the USA with zero. The increases are purely theft.

Those fears are reflected in the oil futures markets. "Commodity traders are concerned about what might happen, not what has happened — but what might happen," Guilford said.

That's the truest statement anyone has made about oil since 1973.

Chip Lyons, 54, who has owned the Phillips 66 gas station at 2526 Albany Ave. at Bishops Corner in West Hartford since 1979, said he's keeping tabs on the unrest that has rocked North Africa. But his biggest worry is that dissent could spread to Iran or Saudi Arabia, which control a large portion of the world's oil supply.

"God forbid they start demonstrating in the streets of Riyadh [Saudi Arabia]," Lyons said. "Oooooh, baby. Hold on tight. People are complaining about $3.59 a gallon? They'll be begging for $3.59 a gallon."

Hey Chip ! You're a thief. What do demonstrations have to do with oil facilities under military and private security guard ? You're a liar, too. Raise your price too much and you'll be begging for the unemployment (and disability or old age benefits) you now steal from others.

Matt Halverson, who has owned the Phillips 66 at 129 Willard Ave. in Newington since 1983, said the price he pays to a gas supplier jumped 12 cents while he was out having dinner with his wife.

"I watch CNBC all the time, and I watch the market going up, which it's doing again today," Halverson said. "It's just amazingly fast how quickly they pass it on to me. And then, of course, I have to pass it on to the customer."

There you have it. Matt, it's a future. You already own the gas in your tanks. Instead of preparing for what they feign to fear but will just pass on to you, Matt had to go have dinner with his wife and I'm guessing it wasn't at the Newington McDonald's. Matt can just pass along the inflated cost of his inflated meat dinner to you, the consumer. Maybe he can find a disabled person or an old person and kick them out of their wheelchair, just for fun.

According to the Department of Energy, if the price per barrel holds, it usually takes eight weeks for the full price to show up at the pump.

That's an utter lie dis-proven by watching any gas stations or gas price website. They react immediately, running outside or pressing a key to change the price by the time they receive word. Many have CNBC or other financial networks on as if to say "see !" to the American Idiot consumer.

Yahaira Cruz of Hartford doesn't blame local gas station owners for the soaring price of gasoline. Cruz, 31, has seen these kinds of price hikes before, and like many consumers, she's resigned to paying more.

"It's just the way it is," said Cruz, a two-car owner who has parked the flashy, but gas-guzzling BMW in favor of her second car, a late model Nissan Sentra that gets better gas mileage.

Yolanda (sic.) doesn't care because her credit card company is paying, not her.

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This blog is written in the unvarnished truth by an Ottaviano. That's Octavianus, Octavian, Octavius, Octavia, Octavii... some intel nit wit keeps editing the commonly used Wikipedia as Google and Youtube delinks Ottaviano and Octavianus, etc, out of their abject fear of real history. Now they've shoved Cardinal Ottaviani who worked with the OSS and Martin S. Quigley to the back of the searches too. Their goal is to throw off any casual looker seeking to confirm this. It's not the politically correct nonsense of a Globalist publishing house with a post-WWII agenda of anti-Roman, anti-Italian, and anti-Goyim lies.

I graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors in History from Trinity College and needed only a second thesis or exam to get the B.A. in Political Science or International Relations. I was oddly told that they were "redundant" even though many now get both. I then refused to become a sock puppet like others are, and was maimed on purpose to a near heart transplant, nerve damage, and internal bleeding by a bunch of Globalist government paranoids acting through Merck. Their Germanic and Jewish ancestors rioted against my family in Rome with this purpose, assassinated lawful Emperors and defiled the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome. Stop believing what you were conditioned to think out of post WWII guilt. Nero didn't burn Rome; the fiddle they now say he played wasn't invented until the 16th century, and Nero was assassinated by their ancestors ending our rule. An unlawful coup took hold in 476 and continues unchallenged.

After all of that, on 31 May 2008, my 62 year old father dropped dead in front of me as two fighters hundreds of miles from their base flew over. Connecticut politicians Richard Blumenthal, Joe Courtney and my father's student Susan Bysiewicz held up both the ambulance and AED which should have been 1000 feet away for their own paranoid protection. That left my mother with $62 a month and no pension. You bet it was retaliation by the people who maimed me that I now attack, but hadn't uttered a word about until after that.

I'm also a ham radio operator, but most of the new hams are incompetent un-opinionated fake emergency responder mush mouths since they dropped the IQ test.

Benjamin Disraeli

"There is in Italy a power which we seldom mention in this House ... I mean the secret societies.... It is useless to deny, because it is impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe--the whole of Italy and France and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries--is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superficies of the earth is now being covered with railroads. And what are their objects? They do not attempt to conceal them. They do not want constitutional government; they do not want ameliorated institutions ... they want to change the tenure of land, to drive out the present owners of the soil and to put an end to ecclesiastical establishments. Some of them may go further...."

in the House of Commons, July 14, 1856

Nicolo Machiavelli

"Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. Because this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you."

John Locke

"but where no such appeal is, as in the state of nature, for want of positive laws, and judges with authority to appeal to, the state of war once begun, continues, with a right to the innocent party to destroy the other whenever he can, until the aggressor offers peace, and desires reconciliation on such terms as may repair any wrongs he has already done, and secure the innocent for the future; nay, where an appeal to the law, and constituted judges, lies open, but the remedy is denied by a manifest perverting of justice, and a barefaced wresting of the laws to protect or indemnify the violence or injuries of some men, or party of men, there it is hard to imagine any thing but a state of war: for wherever violence is used, and injury done, though by hands appointed to administer justice, it is still violence and injury, however coloured with the name, pretences, or forms of law, the end whereof being to protect and redress the innocent, by an unbiassed application of it, to all who are under it; wherever that is not bona fide done, war is made upon the sufferers, who having no appeal on earth to right them, they are left to the only remedy in such cases, an appeal to heaven."

The "innovative" electric car

MR. MAXIM," asked New Haven Carriage-Maker William Hooker Atwood in 1896, "do you want this carriage to look like a Western buggy-maker's job or do you want it to be a gentleman's carriage?" Answered Hiram Percy Maxim, builder of the Mark I Electric Phaeton: "Like a gentleman's carriage, Mr. Atwood." For almost half a century, the U.S. automobile was indeed a "gentleman's carriage," built for men and bought on the basis of its mechanical excellence, not its sculptured lines or pleasing colors.