Fatal Price War - Gasoline

Overheal

Gas War Turns Deadly in Detroit

Feud Between Owners at Adjacent Gas Stations Ends With One Man's Shooting Death

By DAVID SCHOETZ

Nov. 16, 2007 —

A simmering feud over prices between neighboring gas station owners in Detroit turned fatal this morning as one man shot and killed the other during a confrontation outside one of the stations, police said.
Police originally responded to a call about an assault in progress with a bat and a pipe outside a local Marathon gas station, Sgt. Eren Stephens Bell, a spokeswoman for the Detroit police, told ABC News.
When officers arrived on the scene, they found that one station owner had been shot. He was transported to a local hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival, Bell said.
"The shooter is in police custody," Bell said, adding that charges had not yet been filed against the alleged gunman and that the investigation was ongoing. Police didn't release the names of either of the gas station owners.
ABC News' Detroit affiliate WXYZ reported that this morning's confrontation began as two employees of a Marathon station were manually changing the gas prices on the station's board to $2.93 for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline -- 3 cents a gallon less than the competing BP gas station next door.
As the two Marathon employees, including the station's 51-year-old owner, made the change, they were approached by two workers from the BP. One of those men was the competing station's 45-year-old owner, reportedly a father of five.
Someone brandished a bat, according to the WXYZ report, before the owner went inside the Marathon shop, retrieved a gun and shot the BP owner multiple times.
As police investigated the crime scene, BP then raised its price for a regular gallon of unleaded gas from $2.96 to $3.09.
Witnesses told WXYZ that the two owners had been involved in an ongoing price war to compete for business as the cost of gasoline has continued to rise.


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Some people "haha now that hes dead I can charge whatever i want!"

Senna

you dont need to go to America to see someone killed over business.

But reading that, petrol there is about 40% of the Irish price?

Victor

Senna wrote: »

But reading that, petrol there is about 40% of the Irish price?

But try getting health insurance.

Overheal

try getting a hospital bed here :rolleyes:

yeah the benefits of stockpiling oil and befriending saudi arabia with a faux pas invasion of iraq

rossie1977

add the fact that all the worlds oil must be first traded in US dollars and in order to do that the competing nations must first buy dollars from america. In essence this means all of the worlds oil is owned by america

Capt'n Midnight

rossie1977 wrote: »

add the fact that all the worlds oil must be first traded in US dollars and in order to do that the competing nations must first buy dollars from america. In essence this means all of the worlds oil is owned by america

next you'll tell us that if someone tried to setup a euro-based oil exchange it would so threaten the demand for dollars that the americans would use some trumpted excuse to invade his country , bomb it back to the stone age, put their cronies in power to asset strip the remains and then hang him ?

Overheal

we've invaded for less, in fairness

There was once a war started over a pig.

Source: Wikipedia

Has nothing to do with this topic, but is humorous nonetheless.

Anyways, I was amazed at the oil prices.. 3dollars a gallon in Long Island. We're getting totally ripped off.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyways, I was amazed at the oil prices.. 3dollars a gallon in Long Island. We're getting totally ripped off.

To Americans, those prices are outragiously high!

Capt'n Midnight

Deleted User wrote: »

There was once a war started over a pig.

not to mention the one over a football match http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War

anyway back on topic , you have to remember the US gallons are smaller than ours

1 US gallon = 3.7854118 litre (according to google)

so if its 3dollars per gallon, that would work out at about a dollar a litre (maybe, my maths isn't too good), which works out at 0.683713934 Euros a litre (once again, according to google), whereas we are paying around 1euro12 (open to correction) a litre or 2.56 a gallon which is 3.74dollars.

Wow, my head hurts now.

And 1 year ago in California it was 2.457USD a gallon

rossie1977

yeah US gallon equals 3.785 litres

so at $3.00 a gallon it still only costs around $0.79 a litre or about 54 cents a litre here and 38p a litre in the UK, petrol cost roughly £1 a litre in the UK

rossie1977

petrol only costs ~$2.50-$2.60 a gallon in Texas

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

yeah, but you'd use a hell of a lot more of it in those machines they have over there wouldn't you?

Also as the base price of oil is in US $ Americans are directly affected by the rapid rise in price, we are insulated from the worst of this by the change in the €:$ rate, the change in cost to European consumers is much smaller.

rossie1977

Mordeth wrote: »

yeah, but you'd use a hell of a lot more of it in those machines they have over there wouldn't you?

let em buy smaller machines then; i saw a program on a family of dwarves in the States driving a huge SUV :eek:

Also as the base price of oil is in US $ Americans are directly affected by the rapid rise in price, we are insulated from the worst of this by the change in the €:$ rate, the change in cost to European consumers is much smaller

works both ways though with price of oil falling, e.g first time i visited the states in 1998, petrol and diesel were at their lowest levels since the late 1940s, you could buy a gallon for about $0.90 in Arizona

Terry

rossie1977 wrote: »

yeah US gallon equals 3.785 litres

so at $3.00 a gallon it still only costs around $0.79 a litre or about 54 cents a litre here and 38p a litre in the UK, petrol cost roughly £1 a litre in the UK

All the conversions you need.
http://www.france-property-and-information.com/quick_metric_converter.htm for units.
www.xe.com/ucc for currency.

Dubit10

Deleted User wrote: »

There was once a war started over a pig.

Source: Wikipedia

Has nothing to do with this topic, but is humorous nonetheless.

Anyways, I was amazed at the oil prices.. 3dollars a gallon in Long Island. We're getting totally ripped off.

Fook me thats funny:eek:

Manic Moran

rossie1977 wrote: »

let em buy smaller machines then; i saw a program on a family of dwarves in the States driving a huge SUV :eek:

What we want to do is buy diesels, but current environmental/pollution rules generally limit sale of diesel-powered cars. That's why the hybrids are so popular over here: They suck compared to their diesel counterparts, but it's all you can get.

There are some rules changes taking effect in the next two years, so all those German diesels can start being sold here. The US has other innovations going too. Don't expect to see us suddenly driving smaller cars as the big ones are quite useful, but expect to see fuel useage dropping soon. California has already reduced it's fuel consumption 10% from its high point. The 2008 Green Car of the Year is a Tahoe.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/15/autos/green_car/index.htm

The winner of this year's Green Car of the Year doesn't look a thing like the award's past winners. It's a full-sized SUV.

NTM

kowloon

And thats why i drive a bike


(was the pig hot?)