It's gone up eighteen cents in the last three weeks and it will be up again in the morning. The latest increase raised the price of a gallon of gas by six cents pushing regular unleaded near the dollar fifty mark. Station operators say they don't know the reason for the hike but they have their suspicions. I think it is not a shortage of gas, it never has been. But when the distributor raises the price per gallon it affects the business philosophy here.
Gas is sold cheap here to get people to stop.
They make a profit when people shop inside. Bethea says when they have to raise the price of a gallon here it makes competing with big chains more difficult. But motorists know there is little they can do but pump and pay. Just how much we pay is a question we'll find the answer to in the long hot Summer. In Chattanooga Randy Golson News 12.