{"id":992,"date":"2006-04-20T07:56:48","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T15:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/the_daily_news_on_your_side.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:37:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:37:52","slug":"the_daily_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/the_daily_news.html","title":{"rendered":"The Daily News On Your Side!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The gas station featured in the Daily News<\/a> yesterday quickly dropped the price of a gallon of gas by over 60 cents<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A gas station under the Brooklyn Bridge slashed its prices by over 60 cents yesterday — thanks to the Daily News’ revelation yesterday that it was charging an extraordinary $4.50 a gallon for premium.<\/p>\n

“I came down here to take a look and was ready to scream at the people who work here,” said Nancy Gossard, 56, who lives nearby in Brooklyn Heights. “This just reeks of price gouging.”<\/p>\n

The new prices at the Gulf station on Old Fulton St. now range from $3.50 a gallon of regular gasoline for cash-paying drivers to $3.89 a gallon for credit card customers who want premium.<\/p>\n

Though those prices are still far higher than most nearby station – which top out around $3.20 — they were still dramatically less than the day before, when the cheapest gallon of regular gas still cost $4.14 for cash.<\/p>\n

But that did little to assuage the anger of New Yorkers who felt that the small station was trying to rip off its customers.<\/p>\n

“I try to avoid this place because it’s always high but sometimes I have no choice,” said Barry Lu, 38, who pulled up to the pump but stepped back into his Honda Civic without filling after glancing at the prices.<\/p>\n

“But I’ll boycott this place now, I’ll never come back,” he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But don’t call it price gouging:<\/p>\n

One customer winced as she put nearly $40 of regular gas into her Chevrolet minivan but only laughed when asked if she blamed the Gulf station for the hit to her wallet.<\/p>\n

“It’s not these guys’ fault, it’s the oil companies, this war in Iraq, and this President,” said Mary Teague, 45, of Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. “This is capitalism at its most perverse.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The gas station featured in the Daily News yesterday quickly dropped the price of a gallon of gas by over 60 cents: A gas station under the Brooklyn Bridge slashed its prices by over 60 cents yesterday — thanks to the Daily News’ revelation yesterday that it was charging an extraordinary $4.50 a gallon for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}