$3. 08 here in Bothell Wa this morning. We get all of our oil from Alaska. No hurricanes here. We're not shipping any south. Just gouging by the oil companies. This isnt the way the market is supposed to work (Big rich company comes in and buys all of the the water that the farmers depend on, and then jack the price up so the farmers lose their farms, etc to the rich company) (or in this case, oil and gas to the citizens of this country)
Ive never been able to figure out either why their can be a 20 or 30 cent difference in gas in just a couple of miles (They try to explain some of that with "zoning" which should be against the law for a commodity that everyone very lives depend on) But, evidently, it is not agains the law here in Washington for gouging. So, some of the gas stations that you suspect of gouging probably are.