Kurt (Indiana) wrote:It just shot up to $3.59 today. Must be a holiday coming or a bunch of crooks need some more money. Can't tell which.
Miriam C. wrote:There was a rumor that Missouri's Attorney General was looking into the price at the pump.
Funny when Kansas has .11 cents more per gallon tax (may be more this year) that their gas was cheaper than ours.
Joseph wrote:Miriam C. wrote:There was a rumor that Missouri's Attorney General was looking into the price at the pump.
I'm not impressed when politicians look into the price at the pump. It's just another way of grabbing headlines to make people think they're doing something productive. Like the new legislation the US House just passed to make gas price gouging a crime. Big whoop - they've done thirty investigations so far (at what cost to taxpayers?) and come up with squat on price gouging against the oil companies. What we need is to make "tax gouging" a crime.Funny when Kansas has .11 cents more per gallon tax (may be more this year) that their gas was cheaper than ours.
Not according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report. As of today regular is 3.53 in Kansas and 3.12 in Missouri.
But obviously there are other factors at play on the local level, probably effecting the individual station owners - property taxes, local city & county taxes, tax breaks if any, labor costs, etc. Many things drive variations in the price at each pump.
Joseph
Miriam C. wrote:I guess I need to not speak in generalities. The only factor at play was the gouging. I think Kansas gives towns like Galena a tax break so they won't be so much higher than Joplin, but we should never be higher.
Joseph wrote:Miriam C. wrote:I guess I need to not speak in generalities. The only factor at play was the gouging. I think Kansas gives towns like Galena a tax break so they won't be so much higher than Joplin, but we should never be higher.
Um... you lost me. If Missouri's prices are in fact lower, where's the evidence of price gouging?
Joseph
Joseph wrote:Right. We must punish the evil oil companies because gasoline is the one commodity in the world that is exempt from the law of supply and demand......
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