Arbythree, Tulsa (6/29/2009 1:59:36 PM)

There goes the price of my coffee.

Dad, Up North (6/29/2009 2:43:21 PM)

No more 49 cent fountain quarts..........

Mike S, Tulsa (6/29/2009 3:45:05 PM)

Ya know KC, it'd probably be more effective if you'd print that and stick a 44 cent stamp on it.

As to the acquisition, very cool for QT. I've been glad over the last few years to see the increasing number of QT stores in the Dallas area on my visits there.

Barleybaby, Tulsa (6/30/2009 8:02:07 AM)

Big move for Tulsa based QT. For those who aren't aware, QT is consistently on Forbes "Top 100 private companies to work for" list.

susieq, broken arrow (6/30/2009 8:37:35 AM)

are they going to have a simgroup on every corner

shaw411, Scottsdale, AZ (6/30/2009 9:03:01 AM)

49 cent drinks!!! They are 59 cents here at QT's in Phoenix!

HOGRIDER, BA (6/30/2009 11:48:55 AM)

Now QT can really control the price of gasoline at the pump...up up up and away we go.

kyote, (6/30/2009 11:53:41 AM)

This is so quik Rip and control the price of a gallon of gasoline mor than they already do. Up by 10 cents a gallon down by a penny. Hold on to your pump they have to pay for this terminal someway.

Tough but Fair, COWETA (6/30/2009 3:32:44 PM)

Very good business move for QT - and for all of us in Tulsa over the long haul.

We need many more of these well-analyzed, transparent and good-fit business deals in our area - and way fewer fly-by-night, get-rich-quick, flashy SemGroup "businesses" who set up hundreds of stunned Tulsa employees for the unemployment line, even as their "leaders" wined and dined the pols, dazzled the opera-goers, stuffed their own personal pockets chock-full of cash, and then moved on down the road to peddle their business graft and corruption to some other naive community. (Check out Bill Bartmann's "get rich quick" ads these days - running in both USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. Remember when Bill's "SemGroup-style" of flashy business management at Commercial Financial Services was worshiped and praised by 5000+ Tulsa employees out there at Citiplex, so piously guarded by Oral Roberts' famous praying hands?)

Give me a solid company with a tested track record who provides stable, secure middle-class jobs for Tulsans over the long haul any old day! Congratulations, QuikTrip!

Tough but Fair, COWETA (6/30/2009 3:38:06 PM)

Oh, yeah. And remember the thousands of City of Faith Hospital employees who found themselves in the unemployment lines BEFORE CFS and Bartmann arrived here to dazzle us with their business - those folks got their pink slips in the very same building, watched over by the same set of pious praying hands?

O&Gtrader, ft. worth (7/1/2009 12:57:30 PM)

Had lunch yesterday with a guy I knew from my Houston days who is involved in the physical energy commodity business. He buys, sells, ships and transports actual barrels, gallons and molecules of the stuff and has never delved into the "Dark Side" of trading either physical or financial energy products. He has done some business with SemGroup in the past and had very nice things to say about the people with whom he did that business. When I asked him about Sem's trading blow-up a year ago he looked at me with an incredulous, bewildered look that I have seen from others at various industry functions when posed with the same question. He had nothing further to say. I think the oil marketing business community wants the "SemGroup trading thing" to go away really, really soon. It is attracting way too much auditor participation within other trading and marketing businesses these days and oil traders do not like auditors getting in their business. I think I could even get an "amen" on that from the surviving SemGroup and SGLP professionals.