But, Tuesday morning, gasoline in Logan County and surrounding areas skyrocketed 20 cents from $2.15 a gallon to $2.35 for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline.
This is an obvious case of price gouging. The price of oil went up a few cents last week. In nearby Pikeville, Ky., just about 50 miles south of Logan, the price went up from $1.98 to $2.05 a gallon.
Two days later, the price of gasoline in Pikeville dropped from $2.05 a gallon to $1.96 a gallon. The entire time that gas prices were fluctuating in Pikeville, though, they never budged from $2.15 a gallon over here in Logan County. Instead of dropping the price of gas when oil went down and then raising it when it went back up, the Logan County gas stations kept it high throughout that time and then hiked it 20 more cents yesterday.
This appears to us as a ploy to slowly raise the price of gasoline back to the nearly-unaffordable levels it reached last year when it went over $4 a gallon.
It’s greed and gouging like this that has caused the economy to be in such a tailspin.
Shame on the gas companies for being so greedy and making it tough for people here in the coalfields to afford to travel to and from work, the store and the doctor’s office.
There just doesn’t seem to be any relief to the pain we’re suffering at the pumps.
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