Gallons Of Profits!

Gasp! Holy Cow! Gosh! Oh My God! These and many other four-letter explicatives that we can’t print in a family newspaper are being uttered in tones ranging from hopeless despair to out-and-out rage at the borough’s gas stations.
The price of a gallon of regular gas in Queens vaulted past $3.00 a gallon this week and there seems to be no end to the daily increases as we go to press. The daily newspapers are filled with photos showing pumps with gas at a cash price from $4.14.9 a gallon to $4.38.9 a gallon in nearby Brooklyn.
That station was even charging a full 12 cents more in each grade of gas per gallon for the privilege of using your credit card to pay for precious fuel.
Enough!
How about some help from our elected officials, our consumer affairs agencies, the governor, President Bush?
How can one gallon of Gulf gasoline be priced over a dollar more in Brooklyn than in Queens?
Supply and demand? No way - Greed and Gouging … that’s how!
And gouging it must have been as that gas station rolled back its prices the very next day by over 60-odd cents to a range of $3.50.9 to $3.89.9 for a gallon of regular but raised the tariff for using a credit card to 13 cents per gallon across the board.
Since none of our elected officials or our governmental agencies are helping, we must assume that we are alone in this battle for our bucks.
Reconsider those weekend shopping trips. Walk or ride a bicycle whenever possible. Supply and demand does work.
Boycott the high-priced gas stations.
Shop for the cheapest gas you can find.
Do not drive around looking for the cheapest gas in the borough as that could prove penny-wise and pound-fuelish!
Try the following web site and find the lowest price in your area of Queens.
Patronize the station with the lowest prices nearest to you.
It varies day-by-day and the web site updates their information as such.
Go to https://www.newyorkgasprices.com. Scroll down to the “Search For Gas Prices” section. Select Queens from the left list and “all stations” from the list on the right.
You can even ask for the prices in the last 4, 8, 12, or 24 hours.
Bingo … you now have a list of the cheapest priced gas and where to find it today!