LongJohn's blog: "Gas Prices"

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Yes - one of our least favorite subjects again - Gas Prices - but not the usual bitching, complaining, moaning, griping, whining about prices. But rather wondering about the decisions people make. At a fairly busy intersection on my way to work, there are 3 gas stations. This morning the Marathon station had Unleaded Regular for $ 2.619, the BP station had it for $ 2.649 and the 7-11 had it for $ 2.699. Guess which station had the most cars getting gas at the time I happened to drive by... The damn 7-11 station with their Venezuelan CITGO gasoline. If I had gas 8 cents a gallon cheaper across the street, I would go there -- and in this case even more so in order to avoid buying gasoline from that bastard CHAVEZ. With all the people complaining about gas prices recently, you would think that they would cross the intersection to save 8 cents per gallon. Just an observation - what do y'all think? Also - something else annoying: that 9/10 of a cent on the end of the price (the 3rd digit after the decimal). Just rip us off that little bit more and make it $ 2.65 instead of $ 2.649 - after all we save only 1 cent every 10 gallons.