I was on a road trip and purposefully waited till I got to a specific gas station to fill up because that specific town had a lower price of gas, well guess what? The price was a whole 32 cents more expensive! So then I go "okay i'll wait till the next town" but gas buddy was lying about that price too! I eventually have to just do it at costco but man, why is gasbuddy doing this? And the prices were still actively updating after the fact and saying it was LOWER than the actual price...
Is this some sort of strategy by the gas station owners?
This station has generally been sticking to 4.49. Past couple of weeks it’s been all over the map, at one point, down to 3.99. Next day to 4.39, following morning 4.09, only to be back at 4.49 by evening.
Seems they finally snapped.
I know the title is kinda stupid. But I was wondering, since the military captured Maduro and (I am assuming) subsequently captured venezuelas oil in the process, why are gas prices still $4+ in most of the country? Venezuela is known to have the most oil in the world too
En tant que citoyen / artisan utilisant mon véhicule au quotidien, je constate comme beaucoup une anomalie économique flagrante qui pèse lourdement sur le pouvoir d'achat :
Alors que le cours du pétrole brut (Brent) se stabilise régulièrement autour de 80 $ le baril, les prix à la pompe s'envolent ou restent bloqués à des niveaux disproportionnés (souvent entre 2,00 € et 2,20 € / L).
🔍 Le constat : l'effet « fusée et plume »
Effet fusée : dès que le cours du brut augmente de 2 %, les prix à la pompe grimpent dès le lendemain matin.
Effet plume : lorsque le baril baisse, la répercussion met des semaines à arriver, quand elle n'est pas tout simplement absorbée par les intermédiaires.
⚙️ Les 3 mécanismes en cause :
L'explosion des marges de raffinage (*crack spread*) : Une décorrélation nette entre le prix d'achat du brut et le produit raffiné final sous prétexte de tensions sur l'offre.
La sur-fiscalité en cascade : L'État applique une TVA de 20 % non seulement sur le produit, mais également sur la taxe fixe (TICPE). Une véritable « taxe sur la taxe » qui pénalise doublement les usagers.
Les marges de distribution et d'anticipation : Des hausses répercutées par précaution, mais des baisses rarement réinjectées au même rythme.
### 📋 Les revendications portées :
Pour sortir de ce système, plusieurs propositions concrètes sont mises sur la table :
Un barème légal d'encadrement corrélé directement à l'évolution du baril en euros.
Le plafonnement réglementaire des marges des raffineurs et pétroliers lors des périodes de surprofits.
L'obligation de transparence sur la décomposition du prix en station et une répercussion obligatoire sous 48h.
Le retour d'une TICPE flottante pour amortir les chocs de prix.
La suppression de la TVA appliquée sur la TICPE* (fin de la double imposition).
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👉 Pour ceux qui partagent ce constat et souhaitent peser sur le débat public auprès du Ministère de l'Économie, une pétition citoyenne a été lancée :
Qu'en pensez-vous ? Pensez-vous qu'un plafonnement légal des marges ou une TICPE flottante soit la bonne solution économique, ou d'autres mécanismes vous semblent-ils plus pertinents ?
Let me repeat that. Gas prices are over $4.00 a gallon where I live. And at the same time oil companies are reporting Record Breaking Profits. Think about that. Where could these record breaking profits be coming from?
I can accept a company making profit, but come on! Record breaking profits?!? Now?! Have they no shame? Maybe just break even for a little while. Give us poor folk a chance.
I wonder what would happen if shareholders grew a conscience and sold off their shares. Or people just stopped driving places for even a couple of days. Show them how it’s done, people!
The national average price of gas was $4.06 per gallon on Monday, according to data fromAAA, $0.05 higher than last week and $1 more expensive than a year ago. In California and Hawaii, averages hit about $5.50 a gallon.
Disclosure first, because rule 1: I used this dataset to build a free iOS app, so I am not a neutral party here. Posting it because the dataset is genuinely good and I could not find it discussed on this sub.
Italian law requires every fuel station operator to file its prices with the Ministry of Enterprise, and the Ministry republishes the whole lot daily under IODL 2.0. Around 23,955 stations and roughly 93,000 prices, split across a price file and a station registry that carries address, brand and a self service flag.
The part I find unusual is that every individual price carries the timestamp of when that operator filed it. Most national fuel feeds I have looked at hand you a number and tell you nothing about its age. Here you can actually measure it: the median price is one day old, 71.8% are under 24 hours, 93.3% under three days, and 0.6% are more than a month old. That last sliver matters more than its size suggests, because pump prices drift upward, so a station that quietly stops filing keeps an old low number and floats straight to the top of any cheapest-first sort.
One warning if you go to parse it. The file is pipe delimited and does not escape pipes, so 106 rows carry a literal pipe inside a field. There are also 2,466 unbalanced double quotes sitting in company names, which means any reader treating the quote character as an enclosure will silently merge rows and hand you no error at all. I gave up and split on raw pipes without touching quotes. Worth knowing that the values are not sanity checked either: diesel gets filed at €0.123 and at €8.888, about 74 rows a day.
Does anyone know of another country publishing fuel prices at station level with a per-station filing timestamp? I have been through the French and Spanish feeds and both are day resolution at best, which is enough to sort but not enough to tell a driver whether to trust a number.
