Gas for 4 cents a gallon

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by rah


On the way home form a golf course out in the sticks, I stopped at an old 2 pump place, and the guy actually came out, pumped the gas, cleaned my windshield and checked the oil. I was so shocked that the next day, I figured that due to all the beer we drank, it must not have really happened. The tank was almost full though.

RAH

I do hope that the driver wasn't drunk.

[Az]

They offer to do it here, but I never do this. I go the self service route, and save ~4c per liter.

[rah]

Originally posted by Big Crunch
I do hope that the driver wasn't drunk.

I don't know. I didn't ask him, and I was pretty far gone to tell

rah
we used to have those too, but not anymore.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Gasoline isn't a sole or exclusive product line off of crude. It costs more than that to make, but, supply and demand come into play. Gasoline is made of lighter fractions, so to refine intermediate and light crudes into heavier products like asphalt and a lot of polymer bases, you end up with a lot of gasoline. Do that as an OPEC producer, where you have a huge amount of oil, and you need those other products more than you need lighter fractions like naptha, kerosene and the mix of stuff to make gasoline, and you end up with a big oversupply of light stuff. Gasoline at four cents means they're getting compensated for some of the disposal costs, because it costs more than four cents to transport it.

[DanS]

The irony here is that for the next couple of weeks, the US military will be importing gasoline at 90 cents a gallon or whatever and selling it to the Iraqi consumer at 4 cents.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Irony, or morony?