See that picture on the right?  You might have to click on it to see it at full size to see that I paid $3.39 for 87 octane unleaded gas. I took the picture with my camera phone right after filling up at a station on Old Bridge Road in Prince William County, VA earlier this week. It was the day after the BP announcement re. the pipeline in Alaska being shut down for a while and a miraculous $.40/gallon jump occured overnight.

I bought there because I was on fumes and didn’t have the opportunity to look elsewhere, but just down the road I found gas that was $.20/gallon cheaper and that trend stayed everywhere I drove.  I’ll take my hits for not looking for gas sooner and denying myself the chance to find a better price, but I can at least call them out on their gouging. 

On the way home last night I got a tank full in Petersburg, VA for $2.92. 

And for the record I don’t have anything against higher oil prices (that whole supply and demand thing), but I do have something against gougers.