LETTERS: GAS-PRICE SHIFTS MEAN CUSTOMERS ARE BEING HURT

To the editor:

Something is amiss relative to the price of gasoline. One day last week the prices ranged from $1.47.9 to $1.68.9.

The station with the $168.9 price did not maintain this price very long, probably because of a lack of customers. On Sunday one station lowered its price to $1.34.9. This station had customers lined up three deep at each pump.

You do not have to be a genius to figure out that we are being gouged at the pump. How else can you explain the rapid up-and-down movement of prices? Another interesting insight is the fact that gas prices in Cape Girardeau are almost always 10 cents a gallon higher than they are in Jackson. Jackson stations get their gas from the same wholesalers the stations in Cape do.

CHARLES POWERS

Cape Girardeau