I wrote not too long ago that the differences in gas prices at local stations really had me baffled.
Well after this weekend, gas prices have just left me more confused.
The past few weekends I've been visiting friends in Maryland and Washington, D.C. and gas prices there have always been 20 to 30 cents more expensive than here.
So when I filled up my car last night for $2.38 in Maryland, I was expecting to see prices closer to $2 in York. Needless to say that wasn't the case. Everything I saw in York was around $2.33.
How did that gap close so quickly?
I've been trying to get someone to explain when all gas outlets are selling at the same price why
this isn't price fixing. When drug companies, cereal companies, toidy paper companies and so on do the same thing the feds are all over them for price fixing. So how come the oil companies are able to pull it off with no retribution? Besides all the political ramifications, that is.