RichP
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- Effort, Pa
This is mostly for the NE area but may apply other places too...my fillups have gone from around $19 6 months ago to over $35 lately.
Anybody else notice the sudden jump last week to $2.35 regular and $2.45 mid grade ? I thought it was just up here in the pocono's until I made two trips yesterday to allentown, first trip was over blue mountain and down 145 and even sheetz was $2.35. Second trip was down 33 and some back roads, airport and shoenersville, same thing. Now, what I find interesting is that in 20 years of living up here I have NEVER seen pocono gas prices within .15 cents a gallon of allentown or even NJ and it's the same price over the bridge into phillipsburg. The only 'oddities' were the two 'tourist trap' stations around blakeslee, exxon at $2.65 regular but thats normal, he's been ripping those prices for years as he's the first station you see getting of the 115 exit on 80 and his business is from tourists only.
The other was a bit further west and is another 'first and only visible' station off a Rt80 exit.
My paranoid side says that something happened, either at state level or maybe the gasoline retailers association, it's almost like they were 'set' over the weekend, like they agreed to tie their prices to the national average.
Anybody else notice the sudden jump last week to $2.35 regular and $2.45 mid grade ? I thought it was just up here in the pocono's until I made two trips yesterday to allentown, first trip was over blue mountain and down 145 and even sheetz was $2.35. Second trip was down 33 and some back roads, airport and shoenersville, same thing. Now, what I find interesting is that in 20 years of living up here I have NEVER seen pocono gas prices within .15 cents a gallon of allentown or even NJ and it's the same price over the bridge into phillipsburg. The only 'oddities' were the two 'tourist trap' stations around blakeslee, exxon at $2.65 regular but thats normal, he's been ripping those prices for years as he's the first station you see getting of the 115 exit on 80 and his business is from tourists only.
The other was a bit further west and is another 'first and only visible' station off a Rt80 exit.
My paranoid side says that something happened, either at state level or maybe the gasoline retailers association, it's almost like they were 'set' over the weekend, like they agreed to tie their prices to the national average.
