IMO the only time a gas station should change prices is when they get a new load in the ground. Nothing else should effect their price to cause anything but a minor adjustment other than what they paid for what they are pumping. So the stations that do less business off season will be slower to change prices.
Of course, they are a business and can choose to charge what they want. I can vote with my feet and do. When the oil prices were rocketing skyward in the spring and summer, I took note of those that changed their prices daily or even every few hours. Shockingly those same stations are the slowest to lower prices as prices plummeted. Guess what- the only time I stop at one of them is to pick up enough to get me to another station to fill up at another station (I feel like a teenager all over- $5 regular on pump 2 please!).
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