Why can't gas stations and convenience stores provide more service with higher gas prices?

Question

Think about this?

Gas at $4 a gallon, why can't gas stations and convenience stores provide more service like pumping the gas for you, giving you free coffee, or free toasters, free oil and tire pressure checks?

When they are charging $4 a gallon I say extra services are not unreasonable!

Answer 1

Spoken like a true American!!  Why should they???  People keep buying it anyway....and they dont owe you anything anyway....the time has come for us to pay our fair share for oil...the rest of the world would like to use some gas too you know

Answer 2

Just because the price goes up doesn't mean they make more money. The only people getting rich are the producers, not the retailers.

Answer 3

The retailers are not making the profits.  The profits are going to the speculators that are driving up the oil prices, the oil companies, and also the government ( since they charge taxes on the dollar value, not on the volume you are buying ).

Answer 4

People like to make you pay for less.  Haven't you ever heard of Payless?  And it's not the retailers who are pushing up the cost of gas.  If it were, the consumers would have fixed the problem by now.  For the record though, the whole thing irks the heck out of me.

Answer 5

the gas stations arent the ones making the $$$ from high gas prices

they make more $$ off the conveniance items than they do the gas

Answer 6

Gas stations make nothing on gas.  They have to sell beer and cigarettes to survive.  They are selling gas basically at cost.

Answer 7

Because 90% of gas stations are privately owned (Just because a station has a BP or Exxon sign does not mean that Bp or Exxon owns the station) and they do not make much money selling gas. They make their money selling you coffee and sodas ect...

Gas is high because oil is high. Oil is high because the demand is High.

We have to find a way to do without oil.