Old school gas war on NY reservation

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Gasoline prices in Salamanca dropped to less than 75 cents per gallon Thursday as the effects of the global coronavirus pandemic on the oil industry hit the Seneca Nation.

After a couple weeks of holding steady around $1.70/g at Native-owned gas stations, prices dropped south of $1 Thursday morning, as reported by Kellen Quigley, managing editor of The Salamanca Press.

With seven gas stations in Salamanca’s west end within half a mile of each other, a price war was underway with one business after another dropping its price to be lowest in the city.
State & Union: Price war drops gas below 75 cents per gallon in Salamanca
 
Gov **** will probably start screaming that all this cheap gas will accelerate climate change and that we need increased fuel taxes to "stabilize" the situation.

Dave
 
Davea Lux said:
Gov **** will probably start screaming that all this cheap gas will accelerate climate change and that we need increased fuel taxes to "stabilize" the situation.

Dave
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Screw em all. I bet a lot more old cars are rolling now. I see a lot of pics of C bodies out for Spring on Facebook.
 
Davea Lux said:
Gov **** will probably start screaming that all this cheap gas will accelerate climate change and that we need increased fuel taxes to "stabilize" the situation.

Dave
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He can't say too much because the first one to drop was on the Seneca Nation.
 
Big_John said:
No taxes. No taxes on Seneca cigarettes either.
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Will gas prices cause an influx of outsiders possibly carrying Coronavirus?
Adding a photo I found on FB and didn’t know where to post it.

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300rag said:
But i would bet that their prices, in a normal situation, are not lower by the amount of the taxes. I'm pretty sure that they pocket at least 1/2 the amount of the taxes.
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You are correct on the gas, but prices on Seneca cigarettes (made on the res in Canada) beats the pants off all the others.
 
Imperialist67 said:
I see a road trip to upstate NY in my future...……
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Not upstate, Southern Tier. I worked in Jamestown, Home of Lucile Ball, for about 5 years and we had a plant in Salamanca. Been there several times, only about 10 or 15 miles from the Pennsylvania line.
 
Big_John said:
No taxes. No taxes on Seneca cigarettes either.
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It used to be that you could only transport 2 cartons of cigs out of the nation though. I don't know about gas and it was in the mid 90's the last time I was there except to drive through on the Southern Tier Expressway. Now I-86, used to be 17.
 
shooter65 said:
Not upstate, Southern Tier. I worked in Jamestown, Home of Lucile Ball, for about 5 years and we had a plant in Salamanca. Been there several times, only about 10 or 15 miles from the Pennsylvania line.
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Lake Chatauqua, my family and I enjoyed summer vacations there for a few years. Beautiful country there and some wonderful memories.
 
Big_John said:
I had to look up where Salamanca was. :lol:
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North of Bradford Pa on US rt 219. I would load almost every day at a saw mill in Alegheny NY.. Sent a lot of NY and PA hardwoods to South Africa, Thailand, and Viet Nam
 
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