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Gas Prices: Do you believe the government is doing enough to prevent gas price gouging?
Comment: absolutely NOT! with the oil companies powerful lobbyists having soo many republican representatives and senators in their pockets...they minimize and/or ignore reform policies that will give checks and balances to the speculative oil prices! this is how the big oil companies get "record profits" over the last 8 years the republicans have held the office. no the government needs to take over and regulate the actual industry so the public will not be ripped off from the business owners and their oil companies! from P'cola fl by H
Comment: The Stef & Ellie's gas station on Berryhill Road had regular gas at $3.629 earlier today. At around 3:00 p.m. they were raising it by $1.41 to $5.039 from Milton FL by Karen
Comment: Absolutely NOT. The greed has gotten out of control and will continue out of control as long as our government is "sleeping with big oil". They promote the uncertainty that actually helps to increase the price. Then the people panic, line up and buy out the present supply. All of a sudden "supply and demand" plays it's hand.
Being on a fixed income, I'm out of luck.
Thanks
Mary from lillian, al by mary
Comment: No, when it comes time for re-election, do not reelect our current leaders, vote for fresh faces. It is time for change. Our leaders are more worried about collecting money from special interest groups such as big oil than protecting us. from Milton/Florida by Frank
Comment: I think that this government is proud of the fact that oil companys are raping the citizens of this country. The cost of gas has no bearing on the cost of crude it goes up if a baby hiccups or Mona Lisa smiles! Soon people will smell the stink and know from where it comes. from pensacola fl by darrell
Comment: With a republican administration in this state and in the White House, nothing will be done. from Navarre, Fl. by C J
Comment: there is no gouging going on at all. unless you can prove gouging, rather than a consumer response to threatened supply (drivers did tell the local paper that they were filling up out of fear of loss of supply), you're just engaging in hyperbole, bob. markets are full of people willing to pay when scarcity is present and that is all that's at play. you're smarter than this, bob.
feel free to write me. i'm the gentleman who you signed a coaster for at fort walton mcguire's a while back for my son. from fort walton beach, fl by bill
Comment: No I don't. At Less than $100 dollars a barrel over a year ago, what was the price per gallon? Why are we still paying almost $4.00 per gallon? I am one, tired of lining the pockets of the oil companies as well as the share holders. How many share holders or owners are politicians? Just curious... from Niceville Fl by Gerald
Comment: I do not think they are doing anything!!!! from Gulf Breeze, FL by John
Comment: I don't think so because if they were really tough,then the gas stations would not even think of raising prices because they would be afraid of the trouble that they would be in. from Milton, FL by Heather
Comment: I would believe that if I had not heard about opec saying they are going to cut oil distrubution to drive up the price of gas. Which I heard today that gas is suppose to be up to $6.05 per gallon by monday. I think the gov. is not doing what it can to keep costs down. from pensacola fl by Champion
Comment: Absolutely not! The price of oil/barrel is how much? so why are our gas prices still so high and going higher.... its all a scam from pensacola, fl by denise
Comment: I believe it is in the consumer's best interest to watch the prices for commodities that have no differentiation other than price, and to select the supplier that best meets their need for price and convenience.
What's government doing in the middle of this transaction? from Pensacola / Florida by Rick
Comment: The big oil companies have complete control of the fuel distributors so there is no compitation (Crestview has only two fuel providers - Phillips and Citgo) so the prices are the same all the time. from Crestview, FL by Ernest R.
Comment: May husband just purchased gas at Citgo on Hwy. 29 (Sat. morning 9:32 am) for 3.54 per gal. He went to Winn Dixie to purchase groceries and gas at the Petro station on 9-mile road was 4.43 per gal. That is reciculous and unfair. I am sure prices will rise but a dollar difference from one street the next is unfair. from Cantonment, FL by Virginia
Comment: The Govt does not control panic buying - thats our own fault. However $5.50 seems to be taking advantage of our own stupidity. from Gulf Breeze, FL by Don
Comment: I think in times when natural disasters create hardships (availability of gas), the government should step in and control not only the cost of gasoline, but also the amount of gasoline that any one vehicle can purchase.
I have seen trucks with 50 gallon drums in the back at gas stations waiting to fill up.
Restrict prices and ration gas --- for good of the whole. from Pensacola, FL by Terrence
Comment: Its just more emphasis on why we need to get rid of the oil industry and put our money into renewable energies---the oil industry has bilked us out of billions of dollars and it time to stop---and no thanks to our government---does anyone remember the recent article of our fed employees being in bed (literally) with the oil industry??? from milton by marv
Comment: In accordance to the conservative republican agenda for a "free market" system...the government should take minimum oversight for a "healthy' free market system that should facilitate price flucuation depending on the supply and demand...so people are you surprised why companies are only looking out for themselves and gouge customers when profits can be made whole they corner the market in a systimatic monopoly system? isn't the government suppose to be lookingout for the citizentry? the system is abused and the companies/corps are making rich people richer at the expense of the middle class and poor...it is a very sad state of affairs...isn''t it? from p'cola by h
Comment: FYI: Please tell viewers that to report suspected gouging, they must know the gas price @ dealer's prior to 13 Sep, as well as current gas price. Otherwise, Dept. of AG will not accept the complaint. from Niceville FL by William
Comment: I don't think anybody is doing anything about gas gouging. If it were up to me, the second gas goes above a nickel a gallon--without sufficient cause--I would start arresting the station managers and not let them be released until the major oil companies paid a hefty bond. If this were to happen, maybe the profiteering CEO's would get the message. from Mary Esther, FL. by Tom
Comment: Let the marketplace set prices. Lower the gas tax and drill here, drill now. Liberals love high gas prices. They want us riding bikes anyway. by mike
Comment: Let the marketplace set prices. Lower the gas tax and drill here, drill now. Liberals love high gas prices. They want us riding bikes anyway. by mike
Comment: Yesterday my wife went to fill up gas at the Tom Thumb station at Pensacola Blvd. & Airport. She paid $20 dollars for regular gas. Only diesel would come up. The gas attendant said there was nothing she could do. Finally another attendant removed the out of order sign from the pump and the gas came out just find. We drove bye there 10 minutes later and the out of order signs were removed from all the pumps. Almost every gas station had out of order signs ont the pumps. from Pensacola, Fl. by Neil
Comment: When oil was on the rise the analysts were saying that for each $1.00 rise in a barrel of oil it equaled 2 cents in the price of gas now with the drop in oil prices we are not getting an explanation on what is causing gas to stay so high other than the old stand by response of thats just supply and demand. the government hasnt done a thing to rein in the high price of gas as we are being told that the demand for oil and gas has been declining. from Milton by Charles
Comment: The government has to go after the distributors also not only the gas stations.
The governor says Florida has plenty of gas, so why were all the Tom Thumb's in the Navarre area out of gas? from Navarre, Fl. by C J
Comment: THE PEOPLE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE MAKING THE PRICES GO UP.PEOPLE THINK THE GOV`T SHOULD TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING? STOP WASTING THINGS. from ALABAMA by WILSON
Comment: Absolutely there's gouging! Several days before Gustav came ashore, prices in Milton jumped from $3.51 per gallon to $3.69, all the while the price of crude was plummeting and the oil companies were saying there would be no hurrican impact on the industry. Then, as Ivan approaches, and oil prices fall below $100 per barrel, and the oil companies are saying that Ivan's impact on Gulf of Mexico facilities was minimal, prices remain up. Our government officials are not asleep - they're on the take! from Milton, Fl by Al
Comment: I heard the government would fine the gas stations for the price gouging, which is great if that is the case! I think the government should reimburse the consumer with proof of purchase. Otherwise the gas station gets the consumers money, the gov't gets the gas stations money and the consumer is still paying for the high price of gas and the gouging. from Milton FL by Terri
Comment: i said no, its not just the government its the stores them self they are hording the gas and then selling it at a higher cost. it is hard for a company like the one i work for because we depend on gas to be low but it is a part of life and until they find other fuel resources we will have no choice but too pay the high gas prices. from pensacola fl. by jacob
Comment: NO they are not, they are too busy getting RICH off us. from pensacola, fl by denise
Comment: It really starts with the suppliers. Before Ike hit I had heard from a station owner that his parent company told him to expect a $1.50 a gallon increase. They feel protected because they are not "big oil" and they are not the retailer that has to face the consumer. They are the ones that need to be reeled in not necessarily the local station owner. He only makes about $.05 a gallon as it is. Less if you charge or use your debit card.
I am currently visiting in Seattle, WA and there has benn little or no change in the price of fuel. If there is a nationwide shortage, as they (oil companies) would have us believe, you would think you would feel it here too. from Pensacola,FL by Earl
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