Originally Posted by
Myfingershurt
I’m just saying the price is based on how much the stations are paying. I’m not saying the price comes down slower than it goes up. Just saying it’s not the stations gouging us. It’s the refineries gouging them. Or the traders gouging the refineries. It’s somewhere farther up the chain than the gas station managers.
There's not really a way to say that with certainty. Yep, each guy along the way takes his cut, but it's a pretty widely observed phenomenon that prices at the pump go up rapidly, during times of large oil price gyrations, but come down slowly, even when the price of crude drops rapidly.
The argument that gas stations don't normally make a lot on fuel sales doesn't prove they don't engage in what I have described, because frankly oil can go an entire year, or years, without have large gyrations in price like we have seen recently.