Ok, my two cents worth. Our gas here is always in the $1.50 to $1.65 range at its lowest. A week or so ago it jumped by over 55 cents a gallon and now the lowest is $2.29. Also we have the additional 45 to 60 cents a gallon they add every year for the tourist trade. Having talked to three of the major brand station owners, Chevron, Texaco, and Shell I get the same answer. We need to make as much as we can. Another point in case. A Chevron station in a small town 15 miles South of here was shut down for about 7 weeks for major repairs just after he had filled all of his tanks. When they got everything going he was selling the gas at the price he had it for then. He was contacted by Chevron reps who informed him if he didn't raise that gas to over the $ 2.20 range they would see that he never got another delivery. This was gas that he was selling at the time of the breakdown for $1.29 per gallon. I don't care what they pay in the rest of the world, everything in this country is dictated by greed and corruption. We have a refinery shut down suddenly for repairs and gas goes up $50 cents a gallon. Funny how as soon as the price is raised the problems in the refinery are mysterioulsy solved and it is back online full time. Funny thing was, a person that I know who works at that refinery said it had never even been shut down at all. So put the dam gas at the $4 dollars a gallon they want and then let them drink it.
Ron
