Gas Gouging Knows No Boundaries
By: Alex Flippin
Updated: May 29, 2007
In KNWA’s ongoing quest to find the answers to your questions about high gas prices, we’ve uncovered several reasons why prices remain higher in Northwest Arkansas than other areas of the state. On Tuesday, we sent KNWA’s Alex Flippin to the city of Waldron because we received a tip that there we’d find the highest prices in Arkansas. Before taking the trip, we called ahead to confirm prices in the city, but when we arrived they had already dropped by ten cents a gallon.
Now we had to figure out why and to do that we visited several Waldron gas stations. After a few attempts we persuaded a station manager to speak with us. She told us her prices were set by Littlefield Oil and that she had no say-so in setting those prices. We called Littlefield Oil, but we were told no one could speak to us. However, we did get the station manager who gave us the Littlefield phone number to admit that though her gas prices had dropped, she was still selling fuel from the exact same shipment she was selling from on Tuesday morning. Meaning consumers who purchased gas from that station in the morning were charged ten cents more than folks who were lucky enough to have stopped by in the afternoon to purchase fuel.
