they had shut down some gas stations

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in Cleveland for Price guageing. Dan left to get gas, no way right up the street. Daughter called and it went up to 4>45 or something close I am tried can't think.

but news just said the stations are being close specifically for price guaging! can't spell that word maening raising the prices.

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2001

Answers

Gouging. Close enough, SAR. Bastards. I seem to be using that epithet a lot lately.

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2001

blame it on the bastards, Git.

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2001

DAN did go to work today, and said he was able to get gas in the little burg 5 miles up the country road. at a very decent price. seems the officials were writing decease ans dissist orders as many stations hiked prices to well over 4.00 per gall. last night there was no way anyone was getting gas with the lines.

today, is a beautiful Sept.day.....if you didn't have a tv, radio, or pc...you would be rejoicing in the Lord's great creation.

Sometimes, I think I'd just as soon be IGNORANT.

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2001


Price-gouging gas stations threatened with prosecution

By HOPE YEN, Associated Press

NEW YORK (September 12, 2001 3:58 p.m. EDT) - Several gas stations nationwide lowered their prices Wednesday, one day after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, as state and federal officials threatened action against gougers.

At several locations, gas stations jacked up prices on Tuesday and motorists fearful of shortages scuffled in long lines at the pumps in the hours after the attacks.

In Topeka, Kan., a 78-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for aggravated assault after he allegedly pulled a pellet gun on another customer and bumped his car into another to get to a pump.

"We got an e-mail from Oklahoma City saying gas was over $6 a gallon," Ronda Hunter said Tuesday while waiting in line for gas in western Topeka. "The news said it was jumping to $4 a gallon. Is this madness or what?"

But by Wednesday morning, some gas stations were backing off their prices.

The R and L Texaco in Oklahoma City increased the price of unleaded gasoline to $5 a gallon after a supplier told the owner it was unclear when the next shipment would be available and at what price. But owner Ralph Pfenninger said he now realizes he overcharged customers and would be offering refunds.

Authorities in Oklahoma were investigating instances of price-gouging, while Mississippi's attorney general, Mike Moore, asked Gov. Ronnie Musgrove to declare a state of emergency, which would allow prosecutors to pursue price-gougers there.

At the Super Pumper Amoco station in Devils Lake, N.D., the price of a gallon of regular unleaded shot up to $3.29 Tuesday night, but dropped to $2.19 on Wednesday morning and would drop again, said Caroll Lambert, the station's assistant manager.

"At 10 o'clock (Central time), it's going to $1.89," Lambert said. The price would have been lowered earlier, she said, but, "I don't have anybody here to change the sign."

Lambert said the price changes came on orders from the regional headquarters. Some customers asked for refunds, but she was not giving them out Wednesday morning.

"I'm just following orders," she said.

Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said the rising prices across the country were discussed at a Senate briefing Tuesday night, and he said Congress could take action soon to stop price gouging.

"That's the last thing that should be happening," Conrad said.

The nation's largest oil companies tried to allay concerns Tuesday by freezing their prices and pledging to keep distribution steady, but their efforts seemed to have little immediate impact.

Gas prices rose almost immediately in parts of the Midwest, where prices were already high because of distribution bottlenecks.

At Casey's General Store in Galesburg, Ill., the price of gas had climbed to $4 per gallon from $1.68 earlier in the day. In California, gasoline wholesalers raised prices by as much as 20 cents a gallon.

Greg Seiter, a spokesman at the AAA Hoosier Motor Club in Indiana, said his office has received reports of prices rising to $3 and $4 a gallon in parts of Indiana, including Bloomington and Indianapolis.

Though prices were holding steady at about $1.66 for a gallon of regular unleaded at a Get-N-Go store in Sioux Falls, S.D., attendant John Walz said the lines were several cars deep. Motorists waited up to 45 minutes to fill their gas tanks in Toledo, Ohio.

The average price of gasoline late last week, including all grades and taxes, was $1.56 per gallon, according to the Lundberg Survey of 8,000 stations nationwide.

In Washington, the American Petroleum Institute, the industry trade group, issued a statement reassuring motorists that there is no threat of a fuel shortage.

"Fuels are flowing normally to wholesale and retail markets throughout the United States," said the institute, adding that gasoline and diesel fuel inventories "are adequate to meet demand."

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which controls about 40 percent of the world's oil, on Wednesday was monitoring developments in the aftermath of the attacks. Secretary-General Ali Rodriguez Araque said all 11 member countries "remain committed to continuing their policy of strengthening market stability and ensuring that sufficient supplies are available."

"OPEC members are prepared to use their spare capacity, if deemed necessary, to achieve these goals," he said in a statement issued by OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

Exxon Mobil and BP, the nation's two largest oil companies, sought to calm energy markets, telling traders that supplies would not be hampered, except around New York City. The companies urged consumers not to stockpile gasoline.

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2001


I finally found this link.

Gas Price Watch

Don't forget, they work better if people send in the prices they see around their area.

-- Anonymous, September 13, 2001



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