$6.00 a gallon for gas in Florida

[PredFan]

why would gas be more expensive in Tampa verses Ocala? looks like price GOUGING to me....

The gas stations in questions are all in the Disney World area, aka "Screw the Tourist Land".

Actually, I believe it is only ONE station. If there is another on Disney property, I don't know about it.

 

[JamesInFlorida]

why would gas be more expensive in Tampa verses Ocala? looks like price GOUGING to me....

Because there's a MUCH higher demand in Tampa (due to a MUCH larger population). Tampa's the 3rd largest metro area in the southeast (outside of Miami and Atlanta)-it's going to naturally have more expensive gas than Ocala. Every metro area is going to have more expensive gas prices than rural areas-just the way it is.

edit: and I'm in both Ocala and Tampa often, and there prices are usually the same give or take 4-5 cents either way.

 

[hortysir]

why would gas be more expensive in Tampa verses Ocala? looks like price GOUGING to me....

Because there's a MUCH higher demand in Tampa (due to a MUCH larger population). Tampa's the 3rd largest metro area in the southeast (outside of Miami and Atlanta)-it's going to naturally have more expensive gas than Ocala. Every metro area is going to have more expensive gas prices than rural areas-just the way it is.

edit: and I'm in both Ocala and Tampa often, and there prices are usually the same give or take 4-5 cents either way.

I see just the opposite, James.

I'm in Sebring and any time we have to go to Tampa gas is about 20 cents cheaper.
There's more competition

 

[Old Rocks]

Florida Drivers Shelling Out Nearly $6 A Gallon At Some Gas Stations « CBS Tampa

TAMPA (CBS Tampa) — Talk about pain at the pump! Some Florida drivers are spending nearly $6 a gallon to fill up their gas tanks.

According to GasBuddy.com, motorists are shelling out $5.89 for a gallon of regular gas at a Shell station in Lake Buena Vista, topping out at $5.99 a gallon for premium. It doesn’t get better at a Suncoast Energy station in Orlando, where drivers are paying $5.79 for a gallon of regular.

What GOOD NEWS for democrats. If this doesn't put a lock on obama's keeping his job, everyone is just racist. Democrats will tell you how high prices are good for the ecoonomy.

Why, by golly, you Republicans are really suggesting doing something about it. Yessiree, just give the energy corp execs more tax breaks, that will really teach the bastards. What a novel idea.

We are exporting gas and diesel by the tanker load. There is no shortage of either oil or refined fuel. This is a free market price, and either you accept that, or you have to state that you are for more government control of the market.

 

[Mr. H.]

O.R., when will you get off your high dead beaten horse?

You would advocate $6 gasoline if $4.99 of that were taxes that got plowed directly into renewables and alternatives in the form of true subsidies- free money for technologies whose market is created from thin air and not consumer demand.

 

[Katzndogz]

It will probably be $6.00 or above in California by the end of the week. Democrats need to launder more money into their political campaigns.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Florida Drivers Shelling Out Nearly $6 A Gallon At Some Gas Stations « CBS Tampa

TAMPA (CBS Tampa) — Talk about pain at the pump! Some Florida drivers are spending nearly $6 a gallon to fill up their gas tanks.

According to GasBuddy.com, motorists are shelling out $5.89 for a gallon of regular gas at a Shell station in Lake Buena Vista, topping out at $5.99 a gallon for premium. It doesn’t get better at a Suncoast Energy station in Orlando, where drivers are paying $5.79 for a gallon of regular.

What GOOD NEWS for democrats. If this doesn't put a lock on obama's keeping his job, everyone is just racist. Democrats will tell you how high prices are good for the ecoonomy.

Why, by golly, you Republicans are really suggesting doing something about it. Yessiree, just give the energy corp execs more tax breaks, that will really teach the bastards. What a novel idea.

We are exporting gas and diesel by the tanker load. There is no shortage of either oil or refined fuel. This is a free market price, and either you accept that, or you have to state that you are for more government control of the market.

Dumb ass the Federal tax was raised this year. that's to much government control

 

[Synthaholic]

There is no incentive to lower the price. So the government must force them to. If they decided to raise it to $7.50 a gallon next week, are people going to stop buying gas? No. You would have some reduction, in non-work driving, but people still have to fill their tanks. There is still enough built-in demand, worldwide, that they would still make billions in profit.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

There is no incentive to lower the price. So the government must force them to. If they decided to raise it to $7.50 a gallon next week, are people going to stop buying gas? No. You would have some reduction, in non-work driving, but people still have to fill their tanks. There is still enough built-in demand, worldwide, that they would still make billions in profit.

If obama wants to lower gas prices he could make a request to congress that they lift the tax on fuel, they they just gave Americans this year. They will not do that because they are greedy.

 

[Synthaholic]

There is no incentive to lower the price. So the government must force them to. If they decided to raise it to $7.50 a gallon next week, are people going to stop buying gas? No. You would have some reduction, in non-work driving, but people still have to fill their tanks. There is still enough built-in demand, worldwide, that they would still make billions in profit.

If obama wants to lower gas prices he could make a request to congress that they lift the tax on fuel, they they just gave Americans this year. They will not do that because they are greedy.

You don't discuss things honestly, so I'm no longer interested in your opinion.

 

[AmericaFirst88]

One station is charging significantly more than the others in Lake Bueno Vista, FL. I guess there's some people dumb enough to pay it.

Lake Buena Vista Gas Prices - Find the Lowest Gas Prices in Lake Buena Vista, Florida

 

[Katzndogz]

Gas is high because obama wants it that way. The price of gas will affect the price of everything else. People that could easily afford to buy food, pay bills and rent won't be able to do that. This is an indication that the government needs to step in and "help". People who could afford to live on a food budget of $100.00 a week will find that the $100.00 only buys $50.00 worth of food. Now they need food banks, food pantries and food stamps to help them.

 

[Syphon]

Gas is high because obama wants it that way. The price of gas will affect the price of everything else. People that could easily afford to buy food, pay bills and rent won't be able to do that. This is an indication that the government needs to step in and "help". People who could afford to live on a food budget of $100.00 a week will find that the $100.00 only buys $50.00 worth of food. Now they need food banks, food pantries and food stamps to help them.

wow, its amazing that you are able to actually put your ignorance into words so well

 

[Katzndogz]

Gas is high because obama wants it that way. The price of gas will affect the price of everything else. People that could easily afford to buy food, pay bills and rent won't be able to do that. This is an indication that the government needs to step in and "help". People who could afford to live on a food budget of $100.00 a week will find that the $100.00 only buys $50.00 worth of food. Now they need food banks, food pantries and food stamps to help them.

wow, its amazing that you are able to actually put your ignorance into words so well

The price of gas has absolutely nothing to do with the price of transportation of goods. Ask any lib, they'll tell you.

 

[Synthaholic]

Gas is high because obama wants it that way. The price of gas will affect the price of everything else. People that could easily afford to buy food, pay bills and rent won't be able to do that. This is an indication that the government needs to step in and "help". People who could afford to live on a food budget of $100.00 a week will find that the $100.00 only buys $50.00 worth of food. Now they need food banks, food pantries and food stamps to help them.

You're a dumbass. Truly.

 

[Katzndogz]

Gas is high because obama wants it that way. The price of gas will affect the price of everything else. People that could easily afford to buy food, pay bills and rent won't be able to do that. This is an indication that the government needs to step in and "help". People who could afford to live on a food budget of $100.00 a week will find that the $100.00 only buys $50.00 worth of food. Now they need food banks, food pantries and food stamps to help them.

You're a dumbass. Truly.

Ahhhh, the unsubstantive personal attack. The last refuge of the liberal.

 

[Syphon]

There is no incentive to lower the price. So the government must force them to. If they decided to raise it to $7.50 a gallon next week, are people going to stop buying gas? No. You would have some reduction, in non-work driving, but people still have to fill their tanks. There is still enough built-in demand, worldwide, that they would still make billions in profit.

If obama wants to lower gas prices he could make a request to congress that they lift the tax on fuel, they they just gave Americans this year. They will not do that because they are greedy.

where does he offset the tax cut you just proposed in the budget? if you dont offset it, then you increase the debt and deficit.

 

[Syphon]

Gas is high because obama wants it that way. The price of gas will affect the price of everything else. People that could easily afford to buy food, pay bills and rent won't be able to do that. This is an indication that the government needs to step in and "help". People who could afford to live on a food budget of $100.00 a week will find that the $100.00 only buys $50.00 worth of food. Now they need food banks, food pantries and food stamps to help them.

You're a dumbass. Truly.

Ahhhh, the unsubstantive personal attack. The last refuge of the liberal.

what are talking about? name calling is a staple of the GOP/TP on here

 

[freedombecki]

Gas is high because obama wants it that way. The price of gas will affect the price of everything else. People that could easily afford to buy food, pay bills and rent won't be able to do that. This is an indication that the government needs to step in and "help". People who could afford to live on a food budget of $100.00 a week will find that the $100.00 only buys $50.00 worth of food. Now they need food banks, food pantries and food stamps to help them.

I wonder what it is the President doesn't understand about people not being able to drive across the country anymore to show their children the Grand Canyon (Arizona), Yosemite (California), Yellowstone and Old Faithful Geyser (Wyoming), Acadia (Maine), Big Bend (Texas), Crater Lake (Oregon), the Everglades (Florida), Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado), Carlsbad Caverns (New Mexico), Wind Caves (South Dakota), Trail of Tears National Historic Trail (Tennessee), Hot Springs National Park (Arkansas), Cuyahoga Valley National Park (Ohio), Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail (Illinois) and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

He and his family have taken numerous vacations since he has been President. What about Mr. and Mrs. Average American who, with the extra $1500 a year they're paying in high gasoline prices, have to give up their vacation just to meet the burdensome demands placed on their budgets in the suspect grounds of austerity for everyone else except themselves in Washington, to whom America pays the big bucks so they can fly of anywhere, day or night, to go to a party fundraiser.

Doesn't the President know his demands place the onus directly onto every single American who buys gasoline to go somewhere? And if they have to drive one of those battery cars, they could get stuck in a hole somewhere and never get to see a National Park.

I think President Obama should rethink a few things, and take that onus off the American family.

That pie-in-the-sky trip to a national park is getting farther and farther away from the Americans who have traditionally been able to afford to access the National Parks as an educational benefit to their children.

And that high gasoline bit? It's decimated small businesses in the tourist trade everywhere.

America is caving in on itself with Obama's high ideals that throw a low, fast hardball directly at America's innocent children who deserve to see America's great National Parks.

And I'm angry about it.

 

[konradv]

Florida Drivers Shelling Out Nearly $6 A Gallon At Some Gas Stations « CBS Tampa

TAMPA (CBS Tampa) — Talk about pain at the pump! Some Florida drivers are spending nearly $6 a gallon to fill up their gas tanks.

According to GasBuddy.com, motorists are shelling out $5.89 for a gallon of regular gas at a Shell station in Lake Buena Vista, topping out at $5.99 a gallon for premium. It doesn’t get better at a Suncoast Energy station in Orlando, where drivers are paying $5.79 for a gallon of regular.

What GOOD NEWS for democrats. If this doesn't put a lock on obama's keeping his job, everyone is just racist. Democrats will tell you how high prices are good for the ecoonomy.

How do local prices have anything to do with Obama? It's $3.599 in Baltimore. Maybe you're just living in the wrong place.