I wanted to share this story of an interesting event that happened here in my small town. I don’t know what you all pay for gasoline, but I was paying about $3.89 per gallon of regular unleaded up until this weekend, which seemed like a deal after paying $4.89 per gallon in Los Angeles. However, because I had to head “down the hill” to the city last week to take my wife to the airport, I saw that only an hour away gas was being sold for $3.49 per gallon – a $.40 cent difference. That is a huge difference if you have to buy 10-15 gallons of gas a week! But I just figured the price difference was because of my location and that the gas trucks had to make the trek up the hill to deliver our gas and wrote it off as the price of living in the mountains. However, one of the residents of my town decided that this was not fair, and took to the street corners at the gas stations with cardboard signs telling everyone what gas prices were just an hour down the hill. He stood at different gas stations with his handmade signs for a few days, rain or shine, and everyone started honking when they passed him. Even the newspaper picked up the story, letting us all know that the difference should only be $.06 cents per gallon and not $.40, which meant that our gas stations were price gouging my friends and neighbors here in town. Those of us who live up here tend to stay up here, so we don’t see the differences in price too often – and assume we are being treated fairly. But as it turns out, the gas stations here in town were in collusion to gouge the prices way above the market price so they were making a lot of extra money. This guy was on to something, and he continued to stand out in front of different gas stations with his cardboard signs…
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