Comment Is the main fuss about relative prices? (Score 1) 766
The article proves that you could better spend your time going to a cheaper grocery store, rather than hunting for the cheapest gas.
However, it seems to me that complaints about gas prices are not regarding the relative prices between gas stations, but rather the inflation of gas prices as a whole. No matter how much time I spend looking for the cheapest grocery store and the best discounts, if gas prices go up then I spend more on gas than I did before. A rise in gas prices of 10% means I have (0.1 * money spent on gas) less to spend on other things.
So if you devote your time to finding the cheapest gas station and you complain that it takes you too great an effort to find a cheaper one, then yes, please stop doing that and go find a cheaper grocery store instead. But if you like to complain about gas prices being high _in general_, then that doesn't depend on which grocery store you go to.
But it's a nice article anyway.
However, it seems to me that complaints about gas prices are not regarding the relative prices between gas stations, but rather the inflation of gas prices as a whole. No matter how much time I spend looking for the cheapest grocery store and the best discounts, if gas prices go up then I spend more on gas than I did before. A rise in gas prices of 10% means I have (0.1 * money spent on gas) less to spend on other things.
So if you devote your time to finding the cheapest gas station and you complain that it takes you too great an effort to find a cheaper one, then yes, please stop doing that and go find a cheaper grocery store instead. But if you like to complain about gas prices being high _in general_, then that doesn't depend on which grocery store you go to.
But it's a nice article anyway.
