<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I still don't understand this free market thing. Can someone explain how free market works with these gas prices?<br><br>p.s. Tesoro is still $4.11<br><br>Tom Ivie<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 8/7/08, Kenneth Marcy <i><kmmos1@verizon.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1@verizon.net><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Gas prices...........<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 8:25 AM<br><br><pre>On Thursday 07 August 2008 06:55, Bev Bafus wrote:<br>> my point was that since California is usually $.60 higher, if they are at<br>> $4.40, it's the equivalent here of $3.80, which is close to what the<br>price<br>> is in CDA. So why is Moscow so much higher?<br><br>A working hypothesis might be that prices are higher
because the fuel retail <br>and distribution channels can get away with it. They see an additional <br>quarter-dollar per gallon in the local market because there are few people <br>making pricing decisions, and they have tacitly agreed that they will take <br>the money, and the commentary, rather than leave it, and forgo the talk.<br><br>We're obligated to pay because no alternate fuel channels exist to compete.<br><br><br>Ken<br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>=======================================================<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>