![]() ![]() “Price wars happen pretty often in some areas of the country, very random, but don't often last. “I don’t know how they can make money,” at retail prices below $3 he said. Neither are probably making any money though, said Wayne Bombadiere, executive director of the state Association of Service Stations and Repair Shops. ![]() ![]() Sunoco cashier Rashad Mumtaz agreed that the yo-yo pricing brings in the crowds when the price drops below $3. But many of the stations such as this are actually owned by independent businesspeople who simply sign contracts to get gas from Lukoil and to use the brand. Because the company is Russian-owned, there were early calls for boycotts. Lukoil was in the news a year ago with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “He goes down, we go down,” he said, referring to the Sunoco station. Station manager Davabai Patel said in a phone interview they were losing thousands of dollars at that price. “A lot of people came in,” he said when the price fell below $2.50 the other day. The cashier at Lukoil said he just collects the gas payments for the station owner but runs the convenience store part of the operation which has a vast selection of beers and other sundries such as jars of Kratom tea. The two Asian nations have been at odds for decades. There may be some irony in that the employees who run the Lukoil and Sunoco are Indian and Pakistani immigrants, respectively. On Tuesday, retired postal worker Jim Kaufman handed the Lukoil cashier a $100 bill and was happy when he got $20 in change back after filling his pickup. “The other day when I got here it was a madhouse,” said Pete Coons, who was filling up his Toyota Rav4 at the Lukoil station next door. Davis lives in Amsterdam but is frequently in Albany and he has gotten in the habit of stopping off at the station, even when the tank in his Ford Edge isn’t close to empty. ![]()
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