Retailers Subpoenaed Over High Gas Prices (Greenville News print headline)

[DemoTex]

State attorney issues 12 subpoenas in price-gouging probe (On-line headline)

South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster’s office issued four subpoenas Monday and eight more Tuesday questioning retailers about high gas prices.

Names of the retailers weren’t released because the subpoenas are simply officially requesting information, spokesman Mark Plowden said. If any charges are brought, the office then will release the retailer’s name, he said.

Subpoenas have been sent to retailers in Greenville, Spartanburg, Pickens, Anderson, Oconee, Laurens, Cherokee, Abbeville, Sumter, Aiken, Florence and Colleton counties. (snip ..)

Well more than 3,000 consumers have complained to local police, the state Consumer Affairs Office and the Attorney General’s Office since prices shot up shortly before Hurricane Ike struck. Additional subpoenas could be issued, the Attorney General’s Office said. (More ..)

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080916/BUSINESS/309160003/1004/NEWS01

Upstate's gas prices are all over map

Upstate motorists are paying from $3.50 to $4.60 a gallon for unleaded regular gas -- more than a $1-per-gallon difference -- depending on where they fill up, according to gasbuddy.com, a Web site that monitors gas prices throughout the state.

Despite the Upstate's reputation for often having the least expensive gas in the state, Charleston and Myrtle Beach currently have lower average gas prices. Charleston's average price at the pump for unleaded regular is $3.939. Myrtle Beach, usually the most expensive area in South Carolina for gas, reported average prices of $3.94.

The Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson area reported $4.097 a gallon, followed by Columbia at $4.194. (More ..)

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080917/NEWS01/809170367/-1/rss

Today's best gas price
$3.999

We found these prices:
Kangaroo - Rutherford Road at Piedmont Park, Greenville - $3.999
BP- Wade Hampton Blvd., and Middleton Way, Greer - $3.99
Spinx - Wade Hampton Blvd. and Edwards Road, Taylors - $3. 99
Exxon - Stallings Road at Rutherford Road, Greenville - $4.059
Spinx -- corner of Laurens and Washington -- $4.089
Crown - Wade Hampton Blvd and Edwards Mill Road, Taylors - $4.09
Palms - Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors - $ 4.09
Citgo - North Pleasantburg Drive at Rutherford Road, Greenville - $4.189 (More ..)

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080917/BUSINESS/80917015

People are pissed. I guess the Greenville News didn't see the price at Pumpers on US-291 Bypass: $4.75 REG and $4.99 HI-TEST

[Suji to Seoul]

1. But price gouging is the American way. . .how else could I steal pictures like this:

[madmom]

2. $4.29 in NW Ohio last night,went 50 miles south it was $3.85

[Stinky The Clown]

3. I know a few independent retailers. They sell name brand gas under franchises.

They're victims too, for the most part. They make very little per gallon and if they goo too high, they lose business, even as the company stores lower prices to even sell at a loss. One wants steady buiness (the indies) while the oter wants market share and still makes money at the wholesale level.

The gougers are not the independent retailers.