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Ok, the Governor’s office released a statement about gas prices in Utah today and I’m even more pissed about it than I was before. His statement just basically said that yes Utah has high gas prices but they move up and down with the market and had some graphs to show the point. Anyone else feel there should be a whole other part to his statement??? Like maybe tell us something we DON’T know already or even a half assed promise to “investigate” the matter. But no, all we get is some lame ass color coded graphs. The “explanations” from the oil companies are just as pathetic.
Supposedly our prices are high because the gas stations are trying to get a bigger profit margin and that’s why prices haven’t come down. Well I happen to know for a fact after working at a gas station, that the stations don’t set their prices at all! Each night, or every other night, the station gets a fax from the company who they get their gas from TELLING them what to se the prices at the next day. The station has nothing to do with the price what-so-ever! Sure they get a small portion of the profit off of gas but most of a station’s revenue comes from selling snacks, drinks, and the like. Besides if the stations are supposedly keeping the price high for profit then why are prices dropping elsewhere? Wouldn’t it make good business sense for other stations in other states to try the same thing? But oh wait, it gets better.
According to Tesoro, Utah has “unique seasonal and geographic influences” that come into play with gas prices such as “cyclical demand” and being “somewhat isolated” by the Rocky, Wasatch, and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges. Are you seriously shitting me? I mean come on! For one thing if it was so bad here, then why in the hell do we have FOUR refineries here (each owned by different companies, Tesoro being one), and why in the hell has the refinery that Tesoro currently owns been in operation since 1908??? Obviously we can’t be THAT isolated (we only have 3 major freeways going through the state not to mention a good number of rail lines). If mountains and being landlocked is such an issue then why do ALL of the states around us have LESS expensive gas, even the ones who don’t have a SINGLE refinery? As for “cyclical demand”, what state DOESN’T have demand that changes? Our demand has DROPPED (in Utah and nationwide) and yet the price hasn’t budged here but it has dropped everywhere else.
Tesoro also mentions taxes being an issue that is keeping the price high, big surprise. If taxes are part of the problem then why the hell is California’s average price per gallon (4.21) only 6 cents more than Utah’s average (4.15) when California pays 32 MORE cents per gallon in gas tax than we do? Apparently gas taxes can’t be a huge culprit in prices, even though I admit they do affect it somewhat.
I am sick and tired of all this bull shit. I am personally insulted by not only the oil companies but by the Governor’s office as well. I would much rather here the god damn truth about gas prices and why oil companies such as Exxon-Mobile are posting record busting profits the get this half-assed made up bull shit! They want to rap us at the pump, fine I, and I’m sure many others, will keeping voting people out of office in Congress and the White House until they regulate the business, but DON’T put this bull shit in front of us! DON’T insult not only mine but every other person’s intelligence by telling us all this horse shit! A four year old could come up with a better lie!
http://www.ksl.com/index.p
http://www.utah.gov/govern
http://www.tsocorp.com/ste
http://www.api.org/policy/
http://www.api.org/policy/
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