Gasoline Price Gouging

[jtbass]

You were correct. $3.09 was the original price. My mistake. It jumped to $3.29 and fell back the next day to $3.09. Sorry. Too miffed. Whatever, the $.20 jump was it was pointed at the fisherman.............no doubt. It didn't effect the pleasure boater's. Most of them don't care. And the ones that are docked are not going to load up and go to an inland gas station. The locals were not really impacted because the increase didn't last that long. It lasted through the timeframe that the tournament fisherman needed to fill his boat prior to the next days tournament. The AG said it didn't fit price gouging and they didn't see it as collusion.

[LarryG]

You went fishing right? So what are you complaining about? did it curtail your activity? This past week end I paid 3.41 for fuel, i knew ahead of time what the price was in the area I needed to go to, i could have delayed the trip, so who's fault was it? mine! There are some folks who are worrying about fuel just to get to work, and you are complaining about prices and you are fishing!

[zx150]

Well a little off the topic but, it is not going to get any better anytime soon. It is killing my fishing, because I just won't go if gas stays the same price. It takes too much. I really think that gas stations plan when to raise and lower gas. I bet gas will come back down under $3.00 a gal. after Monday. Once the holiday is over, it will come back to $2.70-2.80 a gal. That is still too expensive to pay.

I asked a friend of mine last night at dinner, who is a former trucker how they are doing it. He said that there are very few independents out there. They have all gone belly up or have sold out to a larger company. That is sad. Ryan

[LarryG]

We asked for this mess, and now here it is. Hey at least there is fuel, I remember waiting in line just to get half a tank, there was a gallon limit at that time. Remember the national 60mph speed limit?We want big cars and trucks and boats, and a lot of us have them, but are we happy?Hey guys WE are the problem, not the answer.A few simple solutions are drive less, drive slower, and drive smarter. That will make it possible for the guy in the Humvee, dragging that 24 ft 250 hp three axle trailer, gthe chance to make the oil companys richer.

[dcbasser]

Went up to 3.19 today down here. I really don't understand the increase up and down. You can just about watch it jump daily. Now has it deterred my fishing? No not really but I only fish one day a week with a buddy of mine and we split the cost on the gas. We usually don't do a lot of running on the lake either so going thru a lot of gas really doesn't effect us with his 175 HP engine. I don't see the price going down anytime soon or at least till this winter and I guess the bottom line is if I'm going to fish then I will have to pay the price. I may not be able to afford to eat but then again my wife says that I need to go on a diet anyhow. LOL

[Fishin_4_Fun]

the up & down price happens frequently around here as well. I've seen one station go up $.20. If the other stations follow suit, they'll all go up $.20 as well. If none of the other stations raise their price to match, by the end of the day the one station that did will lower their price back down.

This is pretty normal everywhere I've been. All of the stations around here will all be exactly the same price, except for a couple of name brands like Shell, and Chevron might be 3-5 cents higher.