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4 comments Friday 01 Aug 2008 | Posted By Patrick | Commentary

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 [...]

3 comments Friday 09 May 2008 | Posted By Patrick | Commentary

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 [...]

3 comments Wednesday 23 Apr 2008 | Posted By Patrick | Commentary

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 [...]

3 comments Monday 14 Jan 2008 | Posted By Patrick | Commentary

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 [...]

0 comments Thursday 20 Dec 2007 | Posted By Patrick | Commentary

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 [...]

0 comments Thursday 13 Dec 2007 | Posted By Patrick | Commentary

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 [...]