Thanks to Food City on Eastman road. Prices remained unchanged until the tanks ran dry. From now on I will use Food City gas and bypass Exxon, Shell, and the other price gougers.

I don't see how gas can so high. Even when it was over $140.00 a barrel it still didn't go over $4.00 here. Now it has been around $100.00 give or take a little. So, why so high. I do think gas stations are price gouging because the national gas price average as of 9-14-2008 @ 1:00p.m. was $3.80. So why is it so high here. Our gas in the tri-cities has always been a little less or close to what the national average has been. So, ask yourself "If this is not price gouging." What would you call it ? Please tell us !!!

Here is a real funny for all of you. I am currently in Louisianna working with the Hurricane relief and fuel prices remained the same here!! WTF! This was a scare tactic by the oil companies to make more profit off of ignorance of the common man/woman. Only if Barack Osama can hurry and make president, we will all be safe and he can convince his Muslim borthers to lower fuel prices!!

Mr. Morrison. Here is your answer. Ask this question. Would have have raised the price of gas, if there wasn't a "potential' threat of a gas shortage? We all know the answer to that.........................................
Price gouging is a pejorative term for a seller pricing much higher than is considered reasonable or fair. In precise, legal usage, it is the name of a felony that applies in some of the United States only during civil emergencies. In less precise usage, it can refer either to prices obtained by practices inconsistent with a competitive free market, or to windfall profits. Non-pejorative uses are generally in reaction to what the writer believes is an unjustified restraint on the market.[citation needed]

The economic theory of the last free market[clarify] suggests that, even in unusual circumstances, price controls do more harm than good by preventing incentives for the supply of needed goods. For example, in a disaster situation, a very high price for equipment (e.g. tents) will prompt hugely increased supply of the relevant goods. Libertarians are among those who think firms should be allowed to charge what they want regardless of the circumstances.

As a criminal offense, Florida's law is reasonably typical. Price gouging may be charged when a supplier of essential goods or services sharply raises the prices asked in anticipation of or during a civil emergency, or when it cancels or dishonors contracts in order to take advantage of an increase in prices related to such an emergency. The model case is a retailer who increases the price of existing stocks of milk and bread when a hurricane is imminent. It is a defense to show that the price increase mostly reflects increased costs, such as running an emergency generator, or hazard pay for workers.Price gouging is a pejorative term for a seller pricing much higher than is considered reasonable or fair. In precise, legal usage, it is the name of a felony that applies in some of the United States only during civil emergencies. In less precise usage, it can refer either to prices obtained by practices inconsistent with a competitive free market, or to windfall profits. Non-pejorative uses are generally in reaction to what the writer believes is an unjustified restraint on the market.[citation needed]

The economic theory of the last free market[clarify] suggests that, even in unusual circumstances, price controls do more harm than good by preventing incentives for the supply of needed goods. For example, in a disaster situation, a very high price for equipment (e.g. tents) will prompt hugely increased supply of the relevant goods. Libertarians are among those who think firms should be allowed to charge what they want regardless of the circumstances.

As a criminal offense, Florida's law is reasonably typical. Price gouging may be charged when a supplier of essential goods or services sharply raises the prices asked in anticipation of or during a civil emergency, or when it cancels or dishonors contracts in order to take advantage of an increase in prices related to such an emergency. The model case is a retailer who increases the price of existing stocks of milk and bread when a hurricane is imminent. It is a defense to show that the price increase mostly reflects increased costs, such as running an emergency generator, or hazard pay for workers.

http://gaswatch.energy.gov/

Stations taking advantage of the fear induced hysteria can be reported here. Although i can't say its really their fault.

This whole situation is insanity at it's worst. Everyone lining up to buy gas creates demand which in turn causes the prices to rise. The gas in the underground tanks at the stations didn't cost any more than it did on Thursday but yet the gas/oil companies induced a panic which only created a windfall profit situation for them. This is an example of price gouging at it's worst. Even if all of the drilling platforms in the gulf and all of the gulf refineries were taken out, they only supply about 25% of the oil that this country requires on a daily basis. Accordingly, prices should not have risen by $0.75 per gallon or more in a matter of hours even before any disaster may or may not have occurred. As far as I'm concerned, the public was ripped off in an obscene fashion and the oil companies should be fined to an extent exceeding the windfall profits that they made in a matter of hours. The whole thing was disgraceful.

Baaa ! Baaa ! SHEEP !!
It's hilarious, in this era of instant information, that all you have to do to stir an entire nation into a frenzy is hit the "forward" button in your email options. It's even more amusing that you can use the same old email over and over again. 9/11, Katrina, Ike, etc..etc..