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If you’re talking about retail gas prices a lot of that is inventory driven. Think about it, if I buy a tanker truck of diesel that takes a week to sell @$3/gal
by balderdash 4y ago
If you’re talking about retail gas prices a lot of that is inventory driven. Think about it, if I buy a tanker truck of diesel that takes a week to sell @$3/gal and prices start to rise, sure I’ll rapidly match prices, but maybe be willing to be a bit cheap (since I make most of my money on the convenience store), but now fast forward 6 months and I buy a cargo @5.5 and prices start to drop, I’m going to be inclined to lower prices as slowly as I can try to limit at how much of a loss as I going to sell my fuel high cost basis fuel (where it becomes a little anti-consumer is I can probably rely on the station across the street to be in the bind, and so neither of us are in a rush to mark to market until we have newer lower cost basis inventory)