Rooney: What does a gas station owner make on a gallon of gas?
Judge: Averages 6 to 10 cents a gallon.
Rooney: How many gallons do you sell on a good day?
Judge: A location like this, ah, we are only going to do about 22 - 23 hundred gallons.
Rooney: A day?
Judge: Yeah!
Rooney: 2,300 gallons at 10 cents, that's $230.
Judge: $230
Rooney: Do you make more when the price of gas goes up?
Judge: No, I make less. What happens is the price goes up and to stay competitive you have the tendency to actually hold and eat a lot of it.
Rooney: Now, who sets the price for a gallon of gas? Do you set it?
Judge: The dealer sets the price, the oil companies come in and say ‘Ah, this is what we would suggest you pump gas at.’ Gas companies and taxes on it, the government, they make more money than any dealer does. But there's no one out there -- Bush, Kerry -- no one who will take on an oil company.
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