Gas Prices-Have you noticed that Arco (BP) gas is going for 10 to 15 cents less

[underseasurveyor]

versus the other stations. Shell, Union 76, Cheveron all of them are a good 10 to 15 cents per gallon higher.

In the Long Beach/Newport Beach, CA. area, where I live and haunt, Arco gas is 2.89 a gallon. It dropped suddenly last week by .10 cents. In these same areas the other forementioned stations are still selling at 3.04 to 3.14 a gallon. Um why could this be I ask myself since most often they run within a few cents of each other?

Do we think that BP is trying to grab a$ much a$ they can while they still can? Yup, me does think so. And why haven't these other stations dropped their prices like they usually do? Are they somehow trying to help BP from finacial disaster by funneling more drivers/dollars into buying the less expensive gas therefore keeping enough money flowing into BP accounts? People everywhere are pissed at BP but with cheaper gas.... they'll buy it. And how many of them even know that Arco and BP are one in the same?

Notice anything like this where you live?

[LeftyMom]

1. Arco was five cents or so cheaper than Chevron here to begin with.

And I don't even know what the Shell people are smoking, their gas has always run 10 cents high, if not more.

[RandomThoughts]

2. Thinking it is about BP

Misses the ideology behind the problem, although some systems of BP may be part of that ideology, we would only know that from news reports anyways.

The point is it is not a single oil company that is the problem, and it does not make sense to think of it that way.


It is a combination of systems, and that system may be throwing BP under the bus to divert news and attention away from other parts of the corruption in the system, so that corruption can try to hide.

In other words, it is true BP seems to have been part of many problems, but while solving the BP problem maintaining focus on correcting the financial sector problems, and other areas should continue.

[kysrsoze]

5. I'm sure other companies are bad too, but BP's this is potentially the 4th BP criminal act, and...

judging by preliminary eyewitness info on 60 Minutes re: how utterly reckless BP was with this drill, those f*cks very much deserve a boycott. Add in their lying to Congress, shitty cleanup effort, window dressing on alternative fuels, and knowingly pointing all blame at Transocean and Halliburton, I will never buy gas there again.

I still would like to see oil nationalized and/or massive regulation added (and actually enforced), and huge national effort on alternative fuels.

[bullwinkle428]

3. BP isn't one penny cheaper than the regional chains like Casey's

General Store here in Iowa. In fact, they're usually 2-3 cents higher per gallon. BP's gas certainly was not any better, and may in fact have been worse than Casey's based on my own observations over the years (in terms of fuel economy).

[underseasurveyor]

4. Never liked the General Stores or Casey's gas

Citgo or Kum n Go not to bad though.

But I have watched the gas stations and their pricing around here and like clock work when one of them changed prices you could bet your sweet bippy you knew exactly how much, within a cent or two, the others were going to be selling their gas for.

But I'm probably reading too much into it anyway. They're all evil and corrupt and in cahoots.

[Tunkamerica]

6. not true here

[Luminous Animal]

7. In California, it looks like Arco is dominating in the low price in most markets

http://gasbuddy.com/Gas_Prices/California/index.aspx

[underseasurveyor]

8. And they have always been a little lower

Usually only by about a nickle. Just seems the 10 to 15 cents difference is odd.