I don't know anything we can do except write our legislators and suggest something like a two week notice of price increases which will put a stop to price gouging. You know something is bad wrong/crooked when one place is selling gas for $3.55 and another is selling it for $4.29 and they all keep it in the same storage tanks.

Murphy oil/walmart ... cullman area.. $3.54.. Jet Pep in Water Valley $3.55 yet almost everywhere else the gas prices are still $3.99 and even higher! Prices on a barrel of oil dropped dramatically for a few days and now it's at or close to record price. Since the oil storage tanks/fuel tanks usually have a 2 week supply I think that as one preventive measure we should all raise hell that there be a law passed that they can lower the price of gasoline any time they want but submit it before some committee or agency or the legislature or some damn body and give a 2 week advance notice that gas prices are going to be raised. Since we have a governing body that regulates prices of utilities this should also fall under their jurisdiction just like regulating price of electricity is done. Alabama power essentially has a monopoly on electicity... the oil companies are a conglomerate and so powerful that they really have no competition because we have to use gasoline and have very little alternative so in effect it works as a monopoly too and now it's a run away pricing monopoly. Except for the price of a barrel of oil as traded in the commodities market there is no reason they can't sell gasoline for far less than $1 per gallon. Like most businesses they get a percentage of the sale as profit and not a specific amount per gallon... so, he higher the price, the more they make... time to do something about it.