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Sunday, April 19, 2020

Why Are We Paying So Much For Gas On The Eastern Shore?

Just saw gas for $1.39 a gallon outside of Richmond Virginia.

37 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gas in Stephens city, outside of DC is now $1.09 a gal.

Anonymous said...

Called price fixing. Snow Hill had it last week at $1.49

Anonymous said...

MD high gas tax.

Anonymous said...

So that convenience stores will survive the plandemic. Duh!

Anonymous said...

Lack of demand - which doesn't make sense.

Unless, gas will never go "bad" like food - so even though supply exceeds demand BIG oil is still in charge.

Again, doesn't make sense. When a hurricane comes into the Gulf - we always see a spike in prices immediately. When the price of barrels of oil (which are for 30 days into the future) skyrocket, price jump immediately. When the price goes down, HA prices go down a penny or two in several weeks.

Then we have the "summer blend", "winter blend", blah blah blah.

Big Oil.

Sad.

Anonymous said...

Because hillbillies like us are willing to pay more.We save on a lot of other things that make up for it.

Anonymous said...

We are being ripped off.

Anonymous said...

.99 in Kentucky.

Anonymous said...

Because there are so many of us traveling up and down the roads, a more rural area with greater distances between venues, thus creating a greater demand, hence the higher price.

Anonymous said...

Too many tourist passing thru??

Girdletree said...

I said it before. Snow Hill had it for.99 and the cops shut it down due to the number of people spilling into the streets, and not social distancing.

Rebel Without a Clue said...

I thought that it had to do with the distance that the gas trucks had to travel to refill the stations. I am unaware of any gas pipelines on the shore. Dang!!

Anonymous said...

'plandemic lol

Anonymous said...

the Md tax on gas.

Anonymous said...

Don't just compare Gas Prices, The Eastern Shore has always been screwed
in Electric Rates. Because , We have NO Representation on the
Eastern Shore to Support us. Who can remember when a Governor of MD
cared about the Eastern Shore? That is why a lot of us go to Delaware or Virginia to buy items we need. May be some day, The Whole Eastern Shore
will be changed to being part of the Delaware State.

Anonymous said...

Annapolis only cares (not just the Gov) about their Eastern Shore cash cow is the summertime when OC becomes the 2nd largest city in MD.

WEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL - Danger Will Robinson, there will be NO cash cow this summer! What is the backup plan?


Anonymous said...

Only .78 in Biloxi Miss.

Anonymous said...

Every station on the eastern shore gets their gas from the same supplier based on the western shore.
The company in Worcester Co that owned many hundreds of stations sold out several years ago.
Where I live now gas runs from 1.40 to 1.90 so rip offs aren't just on the shore.

Anonymous said...

With Maryland tax at 36.7cents and federal 18.4 cents totaling 55.1 cents leaving approximately $1.34 per gallon for refining, shipping and profit. Still much, much cheaper than bottled water.

Anonymous said...

In 1955 when I was in high school ESSO Extra(now EXXON) went to 36 cents and people were freaking out.

Anonymous said...

It’s $1.79 in Talbot and Dorchester counties. Jumps to $1.93 in wicomico

Anonymous said...

Your know your getting old around here when you obsess about the weather and the price of gas. Of which you have control of neither. Where are people going right now ?

Anonymous said...

No, it's called inventory replacement cost. You don't sell existing inventory at a loss.

Unknown said...

Because here on the Eastern shore and all of my our fuel and gas prices are controlled by big business like royal farms and
Wawa I travel the shore constantly from cape Charles thru Salisbury and to Cambridge you can watch them raise the fuel prices and all the other small guys follow there needs to be more oversight on gas prices

Anonymous said...

Wow. Someone with knowledge and common sense. You might as well not even try explaining this to the idiots on here. I’ve tried for far to long, they do not like facts.

Anonymous said...

Roof, wawa look at how the pricing works between them. It’s easy to see. Out of the areas they compete are lower. The higher they can stay when price drops the more they make. That said what are they doing to give back on the shore?

Anonymous said...

Such as ..... ?

Anonymous said...

They were in their cars idiot, I rode by and saw it, but didn't have time to wait in line for an hour or more to save $5 to $10

Anonymous said...

Gov Tawes

Anonymous said...

4:04 - That would be more like 1965 prices

Anonymous said...


Others have mentioned variations in state taxes. Same price off the truck will result in different prices at the pump in each state. Distances from refineries play a role, and so do producer costs. Plus seasonal fuel recipes required in different regions. Other factors also have some impact.

It is only worth traveling a certain distance in search of a lower price.

Anonymous said...

Your calling him/her an idiot yet they are right...lol. my mother drove by also and the police were shutting them down becouse they were getting out of there cars.

Anonymous said...

Bet people wish they had more efficient cars now for their short drives to Wal-Mart. That's all they every did though really climbing in and out of monster trucks with handicap tags.

Anonymous said...

Anything over 50 cents per gal is GOUGING !!! Fine them all $5,000.00

1st offense !!!

Anonymous said...

@ April 13, 2020 at 11:16 AM . Hey, it's PANDEMIC, not plandemic. DUH, DUH, DUH.

Anonymous said...

@ April 13, 2020 at 12:25 PM. Uh, they get gas in their cars. Can't get more social distancing than that. Comment when it makes sense.

Anonymous said...

@ April 13, 2020 at 6:14 PM. And you cannot spell. It's too ,not to. You're either a democrat or a Baltimoron.