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they were talking about gas in my newpaper.. .. one guy said to avoid getting gas early in the morning cuz the gas is up a bit then later it goes down then when night comes it goes up again...
Pain at the pumps: gas $1.34 per litre and climbing
By Amanda Pratt
Local News - Saturday, September 03, 2005 @ 01:00
Krystian Kozinski is dumbfounded by the recent soaring gas prices, said to be caused by Hurricane Katrina’s destruction.
“I can’t believe the price of gas today,” said the sub-contract manager for Gas For Less on Colborne Street, across from Pauline Johnson Collegiate, when the price at his station hit $134.7 a litre Friday morning. “But you know what, we’re surprisingly busy.”
And it doesn’t look like the situation is going to improve.
still rising
“I don’t think we’re going to stick at $1.34 today. I’m sure we’re going to hit the low $1.40s,” he said.
Kozinski said hardly anyone pulls up and asks for $5 or $10 worth of gas anymore.
“Five or 10 bucks doesn’t get you very far — maybe from station to station.”
He added that it’s painful for most patrons to even acknowledge what they’re spending on fuel.
“The majority of customers don’t ask about the price anymore,” he said. “They just say, ‘Fill it up.’”
Kozinski suggested price gouging may be an issue with some of the major gas companies, noting that some stations always have higher prices, even when they’re self-serve and have fewer employees than full service stations like his.
“You can see just how much more the major companies make from the customer,” he said.
Kozinski recommended that people in Brantford should “stay away from the pumps first thing in the morning.” He has noticed that in Brantford in particular, the big companies jack up the prices to catch people heading to work who are “more desperate” for gas, then bring them down around 9 a.m. or 10 a.m. He said the large chains especially put the prices back up at night.
“It’s been like this every day for about three months.”
Kozinski said it’s curious that one major fuel company in town can hold 200,000 litres in the ground and would have paid to be stocked with fuel last weekend before the prices went up, yet is still charging higher prices. Kozinski said his tank holds 80,000 litres and he’d run out of fuel if he went longer than four business days without restocking it.
Besides avoiding the gas station in the morning, Kozinski said looking for a vehicle with better gas mileage is obviously a smart idea.
“There’s still a lot of SUV’s driving around,” he noted.
He has noticed people are trying to conserve and that he’s seeing a lot of his regular customers stopping by for cigarettes but riding bicycles to work or car pooling.
tempers flaring
But tempers are flaring and others haven’t taken such a sensible approach to the situation.
“We do get a lot of difficult people because of the price of gas but it’s the business we’re in,” he said. “We see a lot of angry people, yelling and cursing at the employees, but it’s not their fault.”
“We have people driving away without paying, maybe double or triple from over a week ago,” he said. “We got the licence plate number and called the cops on one lady and her excuse was that the cost of gas was so high.”
Meanwhile, Friday morning the price of supreme grade gasoline was at $1.45 a litre.
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/we...24340&catname=Local+News&classif=News+-+Local
Pain at the pumps: gas $1.34 per litre and climbing
By Amanda Pratt
Local News - Saturday, September 03, 2005 @ 01:00
Krystian Kozinski is dumbfounded by the recent soaring gas prices, said to be caused by Hurricane Katrina’s destruction.
“I can’t believe the price of gas today,” said the sub-contract manager for Gas For Less on Colborne Street, across from Pauline Johnson Collegiate, when the price at his station hit $134.7 a litre Friday morning. “But you know what, we’re surprisingly busy.”
And it doesn’t look like the situation is going to improve.
still rising
“I don’t think we’re going to stick at $1.34 today. I’m sure we’re going to hit the low $1.40s,” he said.
Kozinski said hardly anyone pulls up and asks for $5 or $10 worth of gas anymore.
“Five or 10 bucks doesn’t get you very far — maybe from station to station.”
He added that it’s painful for most patrons to even acknowledge what they’re spending on fuel.
“The majority of customers don’t ask about the price anymore,” he said. “They just say, ‘Fill it up.’”
Kozinski suggested price gouging may be an issue with some of the major gas companies, noting that some stations always have higher prices, even when they’re self-serve and have fewer employees than full service stations like his.
“You can see just how much more the major companies make from the customer,” he said.
Kozinski recommended that people in Brantford should “stay away from the pumps first thing in the morning.” He has noticed that in Brantford in particular, the big companies jack up the prices to catch people heading to work who are “more desperate” for gas, then bring them down around 9 a.m. or 10 a.m. He said the large chains especially put the prices back up at night.
“It’s been like this every day for about three months.”
Kozinski said it’s curious that one major fuel company in town can hold 200,000 litres in the ground and would have paid to be stocked with fuel last weekend before the prices went up, yet is still charging higher prices. Kozinski said his tank holds 80,000 litres and he’d run out of fuel if he went longer than four business days without restocking it.
Besides avoiding the gas station in the morning, Kozinski said looking for a vehicle with better gas mileage is obviously a smart idea.
“There’s still a lot of SUV’s driving around,” he noted.
He has noticed people are trying to conserve and that he’s seeing a lot of his regular customers stopping by for cigarettes but riding bicycles to work or car pooling.
tempers flaring
But tempers are flaring and others haven’t taken such a sensible approach to the situation.
“We do get a lot of difficult people because of the price of gas but it’s the business we’re in,” he said. “We see a lot of angry people, yelling and cursing at the employees, but it’s not their fault.”
“We have people driving away without paying, maybe double or triple from over a week ago,” he said. “We got the licence plate number and called the cops on one lady and her excuse was that the cost of gas was so high.”
Meanwhile, Friday morning the price of supreme grade gasoline was at $1.45 a litre.
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/we...24340&catname=Local+News&classif=News+-+Local
