Thread: Gasoline at $4 Coming to a Pump Near You, Unfazed by Rising Tab
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Old 07-23-2007, 01:53 PM   #367
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Originally Posted by Saggysack
Not only that, but, don't they produce heating oil in the summer months and gasoline in winter months?

So if they were producing heating oil, why is the price of fuel, that has already been refined, now costing us more when it didn't cost them more?
A supplier sells his inventory for whatever the market will bear at that given time, and he/she does so in a totally self serving interest, attempting to make as much as possible without driving away business to a competitor.

Don't they teach econ in High School where you are at?
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