ガソリンステーションは薄い利益でやっている、それを補うのに値段を操作している。
>"It's common for gas stations to raise the price after midnight on any given evening," said McTeague. "[They] keep those prices pretty much firm until about maybe one or two o'clock in the afternoon."
McTeague said the price can change by from two and 10 cents between the morning and evening hours.
Whatcom County is located in the far northwest corner of Washington state, next to the Canadian border and abutting the Salish Sea. The county hosts two of the state’s five oil refineries, with BP and Phillips 66 overseeing facilities at the Cherry Point complex that refines much of the oil from Canada and Alaska that is then distributed along the U.S. West Coast.
“There will be no new refineries, they won’t be able to get permits to export their product, and while we will still have these dinosaur facilities already here, it will be more challenging for them to expand,” said Todd Donovan, who is serving his second term on the council and was a major proponent of the new rule. “The future is clearly in renewable energy.”