We have a handful of casinos around here, and I think the gas stations must be owned by the same people that own those casinos. The gas price signs must use the same technology as slot machines. Someone in the station pulls the lever at least once a day, and a new price appears.
At one Speedway gas station near my house, just since Monday, it has posted prices of $2.03, $1.98, $2.08, $2.25 and the current price of $2.04 for regular unleaded. That is, unless it has changed again since I got home. The last change occurred while I was taking my kids to school for their aforementioned field trip.
(note: when I went to pick my kids up after the field trip, it was back to $2.25)
It's like trying to time the stock market. Whenever the gas prices go down some, you fill up, even if you filled up the day before, just so you don't have to try to fill up right after a spike.
We probably wouldn't care so much if the prices were a dollar a gallon lower. I remember those days as if it were yesterday. Of course, around here, maybe it was yesterday.
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with the memorial holiday weekend coming up, the timing for that week is more crucial. if you can gas up on a wednesday, let's say, that could make a big difference, as opposed to friday.
$1.98?!!! You musta been dreaming??
~Suz~
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