Supplies from other areas of the country won t help much, she said. A lot comes from the Gulf Coast. But not every motorist at local service stations thinks supply and demand are the reasons for price increases. It s summertime and they know people are going to travel. Filling up his van with gasoline, Skip Deeley said he was tired of repeated gasoline price hikes.
Prices keep going up.
They come down and they go up again. RoJo general manager Patrick Mosesso said skepticism about the higher prices is nothing new from consumers. But when the price goes up, we tend to go up slower than we should. We try to be competitive. Mosesso did say, however, that not even he was sure about why the price of a gallon of gasoline is going up.