10-01-2006, 03:26 PM
Stirring the pot a little bit: I just saw a tv news blurb about a price war between gas stations that got the price below $2 dollars a gallon. One of the station managers admitted that he's paying less than $1.30 per gallon PREMIUM so he's still making good money.
Nice profit margins.
> "excepting the value of my time", here is the problem.
So I could make a run at night when I don't have billables and my time is practically worthless.
Seriously, I bet somebody is doing this already. They could be selling cheap gas under overpasses like they did in Soviet Russia. There's just too much of a price discrepancy for it not to be exploited.
Meanwhile, WTF is going on that there's this much of a price difference to begin with? A couple of months ago there was a 12 cent difference in price between Richmond and DC. Now it's 44 cents!!
Nice profit margins.
> "excepting the value of my time", here is the problem.
So I could make a run at night when I don't have billables and my time is practically worthless.
Seriously, I bet somebody is doing this already. They could be selling cheap gas under overpasses like they did in Soviet Russia. There's just too much of a price discrepancy for it not to be exploited.
Meanwhile, WTF is going on that there's this much of a price difference to begin with? A couple of months ago there was a 12 cent difference in price between Richmond and DC. Now it's 44 cents!!