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So WTF? Michigan ($3.832 average) is only outpriced by Oregon ($3.995), California ($4.002), Washington ($4.009), Alaska ($4.370) and Hawaii ($4.619). I can understand the higher prices to some extent in these other places, especially Alaska, Hawaii and California. What makes Michigan (followed by Illinois, Ohio and Indiana) so expensive? I think the oil companies CLAIM it's the distribution, but these three ARE IN THE MIDDLE of the f'ing country! Or is the paths of the pipelines screwed up as bad as the oil companies themselves?

All I've got to say is they're all a bunch of greedy bastards. I mean really. Why is gas so much more expensive in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana than say Oklahoma ($3.281) or Texas ($3.289)? I know your answer, "it's because these states have local rigs supplying oil for refinement", right? Then why is it so much cheaper in Iowa ($3.374)?

You cross ONE state line (Illinois to Iowa) and the price drops almost $0.50 a gallon (on average today)? Cross another (Missouri to Oklahoma)and it drops another $0.10? Really, explain this you greedy bastards!

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Sorry guys. It just pisses me off the way the oil companies screw everyone over the price of gas. I mean really. If you look at today's averages, it goes from $3.063 in South Carolina to $4.009 in Washington state (ignoring Alaska and Hawaii for "obvious reasons"). That's a spread of just short of a dollar a gallon! Or put it another way, that's about a 33% increase going from SC to WA! What's the explanation for this?

What appalls me even more is that people put up with this sh!# because "What choice do we have?" It's all BS if you ask me. They (the oil companies) are robbing us blind and all we have to say is, "What choice do we have?" Pussies. I say it's high time we stand up to these bastards and tell them we know what they're doing.