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> From what I hear, the increased cost of insurance for self-service is in the same ballpark as hiring a few attendants. So it's a wash. Possible hypotheses:
by jdminhbg 4y ago
> From what I hear, the increased cost of insurance for self-service is in the same ballpark as hiring a few attendants. So it's a wash.
Possible hypotheses:
1) Every single gas station in the US not in Oregon or New Jersey is run by complete idiots who can't figure out a way to make full service gas profitable despite the fact that "it's a wash."
2) What you heard is not correct.
- rootusrootus 4y agoNot sure I'm following you here. We're talking about the costs of doing business and how that might reflect in the retail price of gasoline. At this moment the price of gasoline in Washington is less than one penny different from Oregon. This whole discussion is hypothetical, of course, because there is a lot more that goes into the cost & price of gasoline than just employee wages and liability insurance. But to the original question of "is gas more expensive in Oregon?" the answer is "No."
- jdminhbg 4y ago> Not sure I'm following you here. What I'm pointing out is that the issue is not that insurance and labor costs wash each other out, or the rest of the country would have more than zero full-service stations. Here is a recent academic paper that models the cost of labor: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4064061 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4064061