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Author Topic: tough future ahead for California gas stations  (Read 2034 times)

HoodRichOG

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Re: tough future ahead for California gas stations
« Reply #15 on: October 09, 2022, 05:37:39 AM »

A gas stations biggest profit margin is usually on the food and other goods it offers vs gas. Some stations actually start to go negative on gas profits

This sounds like complete BS. There is no way that is true for gas stations in California.
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Re: tough future ahead for California gas stations
« Reply #16 on: October 09, 2022, 09:51:24 AM »

This sounds like complete BS. There is no way that is true for gas stations in California.

See here.


"The markup on a gallon of gas averages 30 cents, and after expenses such as credit card fees, retailers have “net profits of around 10 cents a gallon,”


-Don-  Auburn, CA



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Re: tough future ahead for California gas stations
« Reply #17 on: October 09, 2022, 06:41:56 PM »

This sounds like complete BS. There is no way that is true for gas stations in California.

See here.


"The markup on a gallon of gas averages 30 cents, and after expenses such as credit card fees, retailers have “net profits of around 10 cents a gallon,”


-Don-  Auburn, CA

That might be true for gas retailers, but according to an article in my newspaper yesterday in California the big profits this summer are being made by the state's refineries. Something like two or three times more than normal.   :o
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Re: tough future ahead for California gas stations
« Reply #18 on: October 16, 2022, 04:05:43 AM »

At least y’all have CCS chargers. We only have 9 CCS chargers in Mississippi. Most of them are only one connector and work most of the time. Most are 50 kw or less and located at car dealerships.
At this point I would take more of them anywhere. We have enough Tesla supercharger but not CCS. Even the level 2 AC chargers are not that plentiful. Everyone around here think I have lost my mind ordering an electric motorcycle but I always like a challenge. If you look at Plug Share unless you are in a Tesla there isn’t a CCS charger between metro Jackson and Dallas on I-20.
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Re: tough future ahead for California gas stations
« Reply #19 on: October 16, 2022, 07:08:44 AM »

That might be true for gas retailers, but according to an article in my newspaper yesterday in California the big profits this summer are being made by the state's refineries. Something like two or three times more than normal.   :o
Yeah, I had no doubt somebody was ripping us off somewhere, I just wasn't sure who or where. :)


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