You have to pull over and fill up for 81 cents a gallon, just so that you can say you did. Analysts say the gasoline prices in towns like Snyder are still dropping, in spite of a small increase in the price of oil last week. Low prices are prompting price wars in local towns, forcing local store owners to play a game of brinkmanship over how low they will go. Last month, gas prices in the 90 cents range made headlines. Now stations are selling gas for even less.
Prices are low all over West Texas, but it's getting a little ridiculous.
Nancy Felan, a store manager at Century Fuels in Snyder, said stores have little choice but to drop prices when the store down the street drops theirs. Couple the low gas prices with low oil prices and Snyder's economy is in bad shape. They don't have jobs because of the low prices. I hear from a lot of customers that they would rather pay high priced gas and see people working. In contrast to slight price hikes at the pump in other states, prices keep falling in most parts of Texas.