gas price break

[Gary DiPietroSr]

For those with a Mobil/Exxon speedpass gas account, they are offering $.15 off per gallon for the next 60 days. All you have to do is tell them you want to take advantage of the offer. :banana:

 

[Andy Chase]

at least 2 of the SA's in the Twin Cities are accepting all gas coupons and are doubling them on Tuesdays. :banana:

 

[Rick Kent]

But how can they do this when stations claim they only make a few pennies per gallon?

 

[Richard L]

Here in the Waco area, Exxon/Mobil and Shell some of the highest gas prices on www.GasBuddy.com



I've had a Exxon/Mobil credit card that I used for years until their prices went through the roof. I have not purchased any gas from Exxon/Mobil in about 6 months...and they still made 14 Billion in profit the last quarter ! 15 cents a gallon discount would only get them back to where the other stations are selling gas for.



Chevron stations seem to have some of the lowest prices in the area, along with Murphy and Valero. I don't use Valero (formerly Citco) because it is a Venezuelan owned company with their dictator Chavez who called GW Bush the devil.



I think a lot of the gas price fluctuation is based on the individual gas stations. I know different gas stations may have different overhead, but I have noticed on GasBuddy.com that some stations will lower their price to get listed as one of the cheaper gas stations, then when they see the business pick up, they jack up the prices again.



I was also amazed that while gas prices have been dropping over the past 2 weeks (about 11-12 cent a gallon) a few stations that had lower prices raised them again??? What's up with that.



It also seems bizzare that when the cost of a barrel of crude oil goes down by 5%, it takes the pump price weeks to come down and then by only a few cents. Yet if an Arab farts, some speculator thinks the price of crude oil will go up and within 24 hours the price of gas at the pump jumps even when the price of crude has not changed??? It makes no sense, and nobody has ever given a satisfactory answer to why?



...Rich

 

[Roger Batts]

I thought Valero used to be DiamondShamrock.

 

[Richard L]

Roger,

Valero may have boought DiamondShamrock, but they also owned Citgo or previously were known as Citgo. After Chavez called Bush the devil, people stopped buying Citgo gas. I even read an article telling about how the American employees of Citgo in the US felt they were being punished for what Chavez said.



To hide the Citgo/Chavez connection they began changing all the Citgo stations to Valero's as well as some Citgo stations were simply sold to other companies. One of the Citgo stations had just opened when Chavez made his statement...and within a year it was sold to Chevron.



I have not seen a Citgo station here in Texas for about 4-5 years.



Here is an article that talks about this Citgo/Valero relationship.

Valero Gas Stations= CITGO = Venezuela = Chavez

By Debbie Schlussel

If you dont want to finance the thuggish Hugo Chavez democratically elected leader of Venezuela, dont buy gas from VALERO gas stations.

You may have noticed Valero stations popping up all over America. They are really CITGO stations. Because of the deserved stigma attached to the Chavez-controlled gas stations, many Americans are not buying gas at CITGO, and the stations are losing money . . . big-time.

So, with the smoke and mirrors of a name-change, many CITGO stations are quietly changing from CITGO signs and emblems to Valero. The excuse is that Valero, a San Antonio-based oil refiner, is merely branding CITGO stations. Whatever. New Venezuela-affiliated stations are opening up at Valero, as well. Yes, Valero and CITGO are separate companies, but they benefit the same parties when the name Valero is on a gas station: Venezuela and Chavez.

I have even checked it out on Snopes and while both sides seem to be telling lies sprinkled with a little bit of truth it does not deny that Valero is rebranded Citgo.



...Rich

 

[Kevin Lang]

This reminds me how Maryland wants to raise the gas tax by 10 to 15 cents, which is conveniently the same amount this speedpass offer would lower it.



The argument has been made here that the last time the gas tax was adjusted (1992), the tax was set at 20% of the cost of a gallon of gas, which was then around a dollar.



Basing their arguments on that, the MD gov't is trying to claim carte blanche to crank up the gas tax to 20% of a current gallon, or an 80 cent gas tax maximum. Hopefully that would be political suicide for our administration, but MD voters are frustratingly fervent to voting in stupidity. :angry: :angry:



Gas is finally back under 4 bucks a gallon here, ~3.90 avg price/gal, and as soon as that happened, the gas tax hike was being pushed. :banghead::boohoo:

 

[Richard L]

KL,

I don't think I or anyone can argue about the gas tax hikes...either state or federal. I would certainly object less if some of this tax money went towards getting us off imported oil. Now it's just money that goes into the Federal and State free spending accounts.



PS: BTW, I checked into this Exxon discount, and it is true. I have an Exxon/Mobil credit card, but not their SpeedPass, so I ordered one online and should get it in 7-10 days.

The 15 cent discount would make the price high of Exxon gas down to about 3-4 cents cheaper than the cheapest prices in this area. The nice part is that the discount is good for 60 days after I register my SpeedPass into the discount program, as long as I register by the end of June.



...Rich

 

[Kevin Lang]

Is there a gallon limit to the offer?



I don't know about this offer specifically, but on the few times I fuel up @ my local exxon & they have their speedpass ads on the pumps, the ads mention a gallon limit for the savings.



I also don't have a speedpass either.

 

[Richard L]

KL,

Yes, I read that there is a 100 gallon limit to this promotion.



...Rich