On US 59, a key evacuation route out of Houston we watched employees raising the gas prices on this sign!
The gas station is near Hungerford, Texas and it was quite busy.
The clerk at the counter told me the price for regular was $3.70 a gallon this morning. It’s $3.99 now.
The clerk told me the employees just did what the boss told them to do.
I asked to speak to the boss but she said he was not there.
Several customers outside were really steamed about the price increase which they watched, too.
One family leaving the coast with 3 pets, 2 vehicles and an RV trailer said they would go somewhere else to buy more gas. They said the price in their home town of Sargent, Texas in Matagorda County was just $3.65 yesterday.
The Texas Attorney General takes complaints about price gouging and there are big penalties. The family from Sargent said they plan to file one.
September 12, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Here is another one for the 5 News team who reported gas prices had increased by only 1 cent today, I noted that gas was between $3.36 and $3.46 yesterday in Arlington, today it is $3.52 and $3.89 and in most cases these places have NOT had gasoline delivered! It appears that every time something like this comes along they do this, and the goverment claims the will charge anyone they find price gouging, but I don’t ever recall anyone being charged, much less convicted, so go figure!