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Originally Posted by The Unabomber
How can you bring up a point about competition in the gas industry? What competition do you speak of on the consumer level? Petro Canada is and will be selling gas at the same price as Shell.......doesn't seem like competition. These alternatives that you have in mind, name a few viable ones for a person that uses a vehicle for work, be it a trade or a farmer. Are you proposing that farmer can start using horses to seed and plow?
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You're thinking too inside the box. When I meant 'drastic alternatives' I meant that if gas prices were such a big deal then maybe being a tradesperson or a farmer are no longer viable employment alternatives for some people. Especially if their job did not pay them enough to be able to afford gasoline. Read the above post for comments on competition. If the world worked for gasoline the way you wish then you'd only be able to get the current price for gas by shopping around. There are very good competitive reasons for the price being the same from pump to pump in a geographical area. Mainly that if you were a competitor you'd be an idiot if you didn't match a lower price across the street, you simply wouldn't get any customers. This doesn't mean that there isn't competition. As was mentioned gasoline is actually very transparent compared to other industries.