i.e. wholesale gas went from about $3 to $4-$4.50

I just realized something you wrote that begs a question from me: “You only see the street price, you don’t see the wholesale cost that was paid, btw which went up last Thursday between 1.00 to 1.50 per gallon.

For the past several years, I’ve read responses by gas station owners and such that they only make “pennies per gallon”.

At a wholesale price to the retailer of $1 a gallon OR $1.50 a gallon, that appears to translate to something in the 100% margin area, and not “pennies per gallon”…unless we are going to start referring to everything in terms of pennies (i.e., 150 pennies = $1.50 per gallon).

It’s all in the movie Bill, pay more attention next time.

Say WHAT? I don’t unnerstan’….

You go on believing that “master blaster”.

Yesterday, at the convenience store at the corner of Johnsons Ferry Road and 120 in Cobb County, traffic at 7:00 PM got backed-up going east on 120 because cars were stacked in line waiting to “fill-up”. (I hurriedly took an alternate route to Roswell)

When I came back by at 11:00 PM last night, there was a wrap around the corner and switchback lines within the parking lot of that station…and it looked like one pump was operating.

A tanker truck wouldn’t even be able to get INTO the lot if it had arrived.

Do those tanker drivers carry security with them? They should if they do’t already…

I will be Mad Max! ;-0)

You’ve nailed the problem we’ve been fighting since September 12th, the transfer of product from our tanks to those of the motorists. Anything over an average of 1/2 tank means we lose ground.

Jim Tudor

I’m still thinking that by the end of this weekend, enough people will be at 3/4 of a tank, with enough supply to cut out these stupid gas lines (I’ve driven from one end of the metro areaa to the other three times this week, and at least 3/4 of the stations have some gas), that things should get back to “normal”, whatever that is.

I think we are saying close to the same thing. I felt that a week after the panic, it should have reconciled by now…unless of course there is a problem with supply. At some point, after it washes out, the supply trucks should be sitting around with nothing to do for a few days – until the average motorist goes from carrying 3/4 of a tank back to 1/3 of a tank.

As I think about it, the panic should actually create more supply in the long run, because I’m guessing people have cut back on their driving, temporarily reducing the amount of miles driven and the overall amount of gallons needed.

‘Allow the market to set the prices, meaning that, yes, when supply is tight prices will rise.’

And in the case of worthless CDO’s, yes when the supply is enormous and demand is nonexistent, prices fall.

In the case cited, they fell to 10 cents on the dollar, now Wall Street is begging for a bail-out.

So do you stand by your statement or should the free market be allowed to reign when in hurts the citizenry but be put in shackles and chains when hurts Wall Street?

Yes, but it’s a logistics problem, not a supply problem.

the average motorist carries about 1/3 of a tank of gas at a time. After the panic started, let’s assume that the average motorist is now carrying 3/4 of a tank. That’s an awful lot of gas that moved from the supply chain and into end user’s hands.

The tanks at the two main atlanta terminals have sufficient gas supplies. However, trucks are only allowed to spend a certain number of hours on the road/day, and are now spending time unloading at 3-5 stations per truck load, instead of 1-2, which is creating more inefficiencies in the delivery.

Give it another week, 10 days tops, and the circle of life will be normal again, unless that tropical depression off of Haiti decides to hit the East Texas coast.

Shouldn’t filling your entire tank up once a week or topping it off every time it hits 3/4 of a tank four times a week ultimately have the same effect on our supply?

You should read some of the things you write. You may not be trying to, but you come off as a pretty angry person and an overall buzz-kill to be around.

If you are instead a cheerful decent guy who I have misjudged, please accept my most sincere apology.

My issue is not really with “liberal” per se, it is with those that see only good in their side and only evil in their oponents. Those people are zealots, and is a term I have been trying to use a lot more, since I take issue with both liberal and conservative zealots.

As a business owner (actually i own two, a convention center and a video editing production company, which includes Hyatt, and FCTF as a client) I can say with all confidence that you are wrong. I do not hate myself.

And just because I think you and yours are tanking our America, does not make me a ‘liberal’. It makes me a Concerned Citizen.

You are not a ‘conservative’. You, sir, are a toady.

Be well.

Is this going to become a “Mad Max” world?

Will you be the guy with the bad teeth in the auto-gyro?