Regular Price Or Rip Off?

By Diana Lucio Reporter
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As gas prices continue to jump some people are having a hard time keeping up with them. Regular Price Or Rip Off?
Published: Sat, September 13, 2008 - 9:14 pm Last Updated: Sat, September 13, 2008 - 9:35 pm
Diana Lucio
Diana Lucio
If you live along the Gulf Coast, then you know that hurricanes and high gas prices go hand in hand. As many rush to fill up their tanks before the next jump, some service stations are having a hard time keeping up with it themselves. "We've just been really busy, we ran out [of gas] about four o'clock and we're waiting for a truck to come,"Said Nancy Dean a service station attendant.

Officials say demand is high while supplies are low after several refineries in Texas shutdown because of Ike. But while the cost of wholesale fuel has gone up corporations like Chevron say they can't control how much you're being charged at the pump. "It's up to the people at the local retail level who own and operate those Chevron and Texaco stations to set the price as determined by market forces in their area,"Said a spokesman for Chevron. But at the rate that these prices continue to rise some people feel like that isn't always the case and they're calling it a rip off. "It's gouging that's all it is, price gouging,"Said John Kennan while waiting to fill up his tank. "That's what people are looking at that's the aggravation you know, if it would stay at one price, it wouldn't be that bad,"Said Shawn Robin who stopped to get gas while on his way to Louisiana.

Price gouging laws went into effect yesterday after Governor Bob Riley issued a state of emergency.
The law says anyone caught raising the price gas more than 25 percent, will have to pay a thousand dollar fine. You can report price gouging to the Alabama Attorney General's Office at 1-800-392-5658. The State of Florida has also set up a price gouging hotline at 1-800-435-7352.


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lol the wife, husbands condition nixed mexico. do not know why i dreamed about alaska. was not even on my mind.

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i have always heard alaska is beautiful. isn’t that reality show the deadliest catch filmed there? if it is, look for me. i will be the one with 5 life preservers on, with 4 tracking devices around my neck. wonder who they purchase their fuel from.

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lol carl, i saw a pretty big bear running down tanner williams, but i think alaska is a little far for me and to close to russia. i was going there to open up a convenience store. i think it could be the post also.

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They tell me they have some beautiful scenery in Alaska but all I ever saw was ice and rocks. I know they’ve got some really,really big bears there. Did you ever see the record holder for bears ? Standing on it’s back legs it looks big enough to grab an Elephant and eat it and they are having a lot of problems in the towns with them since now they relate humans as food or having food. I think I’ll just stay here and worry about the raccoons and possums.

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You have long distant dreams. There are quite a few miles between Mexico and Alaska.

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carl, can you believe i dreamed i moved to alaska last night. i think these hurricanes are getting to me.

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Sounds like a good idea to me,pass a law that during declarations of emergencies that no price on anything could be any higher than the average over the last 30 days. That would keep everything in check until things got back to normal. Vote for me for governor and I’ll see that it gets passed come hurricane or high water. I agree with you on milk Magnoliascent, it’s subsidized and price controlled and being so there is no competition and there fore high prices.

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carl, well then just make it a law how much profit every retailor makes during a hurricane. i promise you fuel would be at the bottom. i would like to know why milk is so high when these dairy farmers are getting so much in federal money. convenience stores get no grants. make very little profit off of gas.

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i am sure there are some who do care. john mccain was the only one who said any thing about the gas tax, that gas tax feeds a lot of pork. even the liberals are starting to say drill drill drill. maybe its election year, maybe its public out cry. who knows.

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we’ve been gettin gouged for awhile now,ya may think the politicians care , do they? how many use their own $ to fill up, even better , how many of these we’re working on it politicians have an investment in oil. just making their own bankrolls bigger.they could care less about you or me just want our vote , which i dont think matters much anyway.

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