Archive for the Tag 'WOOD'

Most West Michigan BP stations getting me angry

BP has generally been my station of choice for quite some time, but things have slowly been starting to frustrate me with many of the local BP stations (look at GRGP tonight! ALL the high priced stations are BP! ELEVEN!). For one- while they had been typically running 9-cents more for a higher grade, they [...]

Drivers force independent gas station to lose thousands

As you may or may not know, last night a Citgo station in Kentwood (52nd and Kalamazoo) was priced at $3.87 on the street. However, once at the pump, customers noticed the $2.87 and greedily filled up without saying one word to the station’s employees. It is appalling to me that this went on for [...]

Benchmark backs off to $3.69

My Indiana benchmark has dropped four cents since my last writing, down to $3.69. Is there some reason their wholesale costs are that much higher than Grand Rapids? The station in question in Indiana is definitely a high volume station, so their wholesale costs would be more appropriate to benchmark against compared to a smaller [...]

Speedy Rewards: No clear answer! Upset? Leave a comment!

So rumors have been abundant about Speedway canceling its beloved Speedy Rewards program starting January 1. What has changed? I’m not sure. A few posts from GrandRapidsGasPrices.com got me curious- I had yet to hear about anything changing, so I went digging. Here is what I’ve found so far: Coupons violate state law mandated by [...]

OFF TOPIC- Mother dies while delivering triplets

I feel compelled this evening- not to talk about gasoline prices or even anything related to them- but to blog and ask for you to pray for Tina Hagenbuch and her family as she has slipped away from the grasp of life, delivering new life while sacrificing her own. Tina passed away expectedly Thursday while [...]

Sunoco helping to support the spring run up?

From toledoblade.com: Sunoco plans repairs at Toledo refinery Sunoco Inc., the largest oil refiner in the eastern United States, said it plans to shut a fluid catalytic cracker and crude unit in Toledo for repairs next fall, with the possibility that part of the unit would be shut down as early as March.Top company officials [...]

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