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Plain and simple price gouging. Gas ranges from $2.66- $3.45.Come on that is a huge range or pricing. If gas was all the same then it would be. Since i live in teh city trust don; make too far of a drive to deliver gas so why the high charge? Fine it is in some upper area's that gas is increased for more profit. Well it shouldn't be. Like prescription medicine it is controlled by the goverment. so should this!!




Do what?

Have you ever heard of taxes?

Depending on where you live, you might pay as low as 26 cents tax on gas to as much as over 70 cents a gallon -- there's about 50 cents of your 80 cent variation right there.

And not all gas is the same. In fact it's all quite different. There are 45 different blends of fuel used throughout the nation. Different blends cost different amounts to produce, and if you've only got a single refinery producing the blend that your area demands/requires, then you're at the whim of the production of that refinery which will constantly fluctuate with inputs, yields, and maintenance cycles.

And name one thing that isn't higher-priced in the city. Electricity prices are higher. Renting/Mortgage prices are higher. Water prices are higher. Groceries cost lots more there too. These are things that you absolutely require to live, basic substinence requirements of food, water, and shelter, and their prices can vary HUGELY within a city compared to outside, usually much more than gas prices do. What next? Do you want Bush to step in and mandate that land prices don't go up inside San Francisco so that the poor can continue to live downtown?

Why are prices higher in cities? Because the taxes are higher. Because employee wages are higher. Because the land that your building sits on costs MUCH more to occupy. Because your building cost a lot more to build. Because you need more and more expensive permits. Because the cost of getting stuff to you is usually higher. Because, since you probably live in the expensive city too, you want your company to make more money because it costs you twice as much to live there.

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