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- From: bob@kc2wz.bubble.org (Bob Billson)
- Newsgroups: nj.wanted
- Subject: self-serve gas stations (was: Re: secret speed limit )
- Message-ID: <209@kc2wz.bubble.org>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 18:37:58 GMT
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- ~tommy@boole.att.com (Tommy Reingold) says:
- [...]
- >$ ObWanted: a self-serve gas station.
- >
- >That's another topic. We currently have the lowest gas prices in the
- >country. I doubt self-serve would drop the prices. (I assume that's
- >why you want it.) I think it would merely raise the price for full
- >serve, and there are times when you want full serve.
-
- Self-service would NOT drop the price of gasoline, despite the propaganda
- the oil companies spout. My father has owned a gas station for the past 30+
- years. I having worked there a number of years back, I saw first hand how
- the oil companies work things in their favor.
-
- They claim self-service is cheaper, but you are correct we do have the (or
- almost the) lowest prices in the country. The higher price at the full serve
- pumps in self-serve states is artificially high to make folks go to the
- self-serve pumps. Why? Most of stations are oil company run (as opposed
- to individual stations). It is much cheaper to hire one guy to pump
- the gas occasionally than to let the customers do it themselves.
-
- Last time the oil companies tried to push [sneak would be a better word if
- you heard about the behind the scenes stuff that went on with our well paid
- off^H^H^Hfor "representatives" in Trenton] self-serve thorough, they really
- thought they would get it. (Notice how many self-serve type pumps suddenly
- appeared at NJ gas stations; this was _before_ the bill was voted on, too.
- That is how confident they were.)
-
- Eventually the oil companies will probably get self-serve in NJ. They have
- time and money on their side. Expect to see it tried again in a few years.
- Folks who have been brainwashed by self-serve in other states will think it
- is "a good idea" because of promised lower prices. Funny thing is that in
- self-serve states the self-serve pump price is pretty close to the
- full serve price in NJ. If self-serve is so much cheaper, why is there not
- more of a difference? Try asking that of a oil company's district rep and
- see if he gives you a straight answer.
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