kbroderick
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Stirring the pot doesn't count?Wow don't you guys have summer hobbies?
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Stirring the pot doesn't count?Wow don't you guys have summer hobbies?
From what I understand unless the station is owned by the oil company producing the product they cannot change the price till the next delivery. So Mom and pop have to wait till the next tanker fills the tank, but Exxon Mobile can change daily with market pricing. I would assume this also applies to Irving since they are a refiner, but do not drill.This is not how it works in my industry and I suspect most industries relying on global commodities. We always price based on replacement cost. In other words when building a quote, we use the cost to replace the raw material not the legacy cost to purchase the material. Using legacy cost would expose the company to the very real risk of being unable to replace depleted inventory.
The most visible example is gas stations. Gas stations change their prices based on the next tanker of fuel not the last delivery. This is the reason prices can change daily despite irregular deliveries.
From what I understand unless the station is owned by the oil company producing the product they cannot change the price till the next delivery. So Mom and pop have to wait till the next tanker fills the tank, but Exxon Mobile can change daily with market pricing. I would assume this also applies to Irving since they are a refiner, but do not drill.
Could be a NH thing. You can't pump your own gas in NJ, so states must have some differing laws relative to gas stations. Only state I have heard of where you can't self serve.I've never heard of that at least in NJ. As far as I know, every station here can change prices once per day.
Oregon required attendants to pump gas until 2023. I'm not a big fan of that.Could be a NH thing. You can't pump your own gas in NJ, so states must have some differing laws relative to gas stations. Only state I have heard of where you can't self serve.
Could be a NH thing. You can't pump your own gas in NJ, so states must have some differing laws relative to gas stations. Only state I have heard of where you can't self serve.
I've been on a motorcycle and had a NJ attendant turn on the pump and hand me the nozzle. Apparently they weren't any more a fan of trying to fuel up my motorcycle for me than I was.Wow, fucking NJ. I'll have to remember to avoid getting gas there, not that I'm at all likely to go there. I like my car and don't think I could ever trust some minimum wage probably stoned gas pumper dude to not spooge gas or bang up the side of my car with the nozzle
As for Mass, I think it's been at least 15 maybe 20 years since they started to allow pump handle locks. But yeah, I hated that sooooo much. I kept a baseball in my car to jam in the pump handle so I wouldn't have to hold it. I don't mind standing there and making sure the pump stops when it should. But I frigging hated holding pump handles.
Easy enough to google it. Looks like the law was written as much for price protection for small stations vs the emerging mega self serve stations. With a safety banner to help sell it.
At least NJ has the cheapest gas in some areas - notably Port Jervis off I84 vs PA or NY.
I had never heard of that anywhere.I've never heard of that at least in NJ. As far as I know, every station here can change prices once per day.
That's mostly correct. Full-service was the norm regardless of Mom-and-Pop or "mega" stations. Then this guy (I want to say it was in Hackensack, but definitely somewhere near the city) in the late 1940s started self-service and offered his gas cheaper basically passing on some of the labor savings to his fuel customers. The full-service stations thought this was a threat to their business model, and one or more of them were politically connected (as Jersey as ever) & had the law passed. I remember hearing all about this story on a news hour on NJ 101.5 when I was pretty young. His wife or daughter was on & claimed he took the anger from this injustice to his death bed.Easy enough to google it. Looks like the law was written as much for price protection for small stations vs the emerging mega self serve stations. With a safety banner to help sell it.
State fuel tax took a big jump. So where does all that money go, better roads? In NH we got a small increase and it had to go to road paving.NJ used to have the cheapest gas in the Northeast until about 10 years ago. It used to be close to a dollar cheaper than NY gas but now the difference is only a couple cents. I remember getting Jersey gas for $0.89 a gallon in the late 90s.