Now this has come in as a form of ROBBERS!
Since I bought my new car, because it's a Highlander with 3.0 Engine and 4WD, it's rather fuel thirsty (I'm a bit regret buying such a monster), I fill up my car with road side gasoline which is much cheaper. Everyone know that fuel prices are in some type of cartel which is centralized and controlled a big group. In Cambodia, fuel are monopolized by a big company. Other small fuel companies have to obtained quota in order to import fuel. At fuel stations, they must sell fuel at price set by the big company; however, for road side sellers, they can sell whatever price they want. Road side sellers are not legal. A week ago, when fuel station price tag was US$1.32 per liter ($4.99 per gallon), the road side price was $33 per barrel. A plastic gasoline barrel is 30 liters; however, I weight the whole barrel only 21.5kg which I estimate it's only 21kg net. I checked online data, 30 liters of gasoline should weight nearly 22kg. 1kg missing. So I assume that the net gasoline in the barrel is 29 liters net which translates into $1.14 per liter. Still much cheaper fuel station.
Yesterday, I wanted to measure the gas mileage of my monster, so I go to fuel station instead to get the tank fully filled. The plan is like this; have a full tank of gas and drive for a certain distance, i.e 60 miles, then have the tank fully filled again and see how many liters does it take to get the tank full. The number of liters to get the tank full is the number of liters consumed per that distance, i.e 60 miles. Guess what! The price tag now is no longer $1.32, it's $1.34. I looked at the price tag angrily and ask the staff "Hey, the international fuel price has come down, how come you raise the price?", he said nothing!!!
