Pain at the Pump: As Vermonters returned home Labor Day from visiting with friends and family, many faced the frustrating reality that filling up in northwestern Vermont cost about $5 more than elsewhere in Vermont. In Rutland, for example, gas could be purchased last week for little more than $3.30 a gallon. Meanwhile, people filling up in St. Albans and Burlington were forced to pay about 30 cents more per gallon. The cost to fuel distributors to haul gas 75 miles adds about a nickel to the price of a gallon of gas, according to a pricing expert at the Oil Price Information Service. In other words, there is no economic justification for gas in northwestern Vermont to cost 30 cents more a gallon than in Rutland. Read more: sanders.senate.gov/vermont/high-gas-prices-a-possible-solution-from-kentucky?utm_source=vtbuzz&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Headline+IMG+featured&utm_campaign=Vermont+Bernie+Buzz+09-05
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:05:00 +0000
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