Why Sausalito gas station charges nearly $8 a gallon

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Sausalito-gas-station-charges-8-a-gallon-6133057.php

Prices at a Marin County gas station climbed so high this week — up to nearly $8 a gallon for the regular stuff — that rubberneckers thought it was a joke.

But the prices were real. And on Friday, David Mann, owner of the independent Bridgeway Gas in Sausalito, provided an unusual reason for the surge: He doesn’t like complainers.

“Yesterday, some guy asked me, 'How high are you going to go?’” said Mann, who seven years ago bought the gas station that sits across the street from the Sausalito Yacht Harbor. “I said, 'As high as I need to go to get you to stop complaining.’”

Brooding over gas prices, however, is an American pastime, and raising prices is not generally viewed as a way to make people stop grumbling.

[onecaliberal]

1. We already pay over a dollar a gallon more than the rest of the country.

Maybe he will go bankrupt. Not sure who would buy gas there to begin with.

[Fred Sanders]

2. "Brooding over gas prices", is the byproduct of an insane corporate and military love of oil, a uniquely American obsession.

The first battery powered electric jet fighter or battle tank would be the end of that bad love.

[JohnnyLib2]

3. Less costly than an empty tank on the Golden Gate......

[Politicalboi]

4. Yup

Better to pay a few cents or dollars more than to run out and need a tow truck.

[KamaAina]

7. I'm pretty sure there are other gas stations in Sausalito.

[Brother Buzz]

9. There are a total of two

but in a pinch you could hit the fuel dock at Clipper basin and skip paying the road taxes if you could convince them your vehicle was a boat. I understand LBJ often did that.

[KamaAina]

10. If only Ted Kennedy had

he'd have been President.

[valerief]

5. This is hilarious. "I don't like complainers."

[Cartoonist]

6. no lines

I pass by there regularly. I rarely see someone at the pump. He doesn't do mechanical work either. I guess it's a tax write-off. Or maybe he makes a lot of money selling soda and chips.

[petronius]

8. It has always seemed to me that there are a fair number of 'hobby' stores in

a place like Sausalito - stores that are not the primary livelihood for the operators (sort of like when people retire to the countryside and buy a vineyard). Usually those stores are artistic or boutique-y, but maybe this guy has always dreamed of having his very own gas station (and be damned to the customers)...