Yes, there is a station at Ross Lake in Washington state that gouged the heck out of me. We’re tlakin’ over $2 a gallon when the average price was $.89. But like you said, it was REALLY out of the way and it was either there or grab a gas can and walk a long ways.
While were on the subject, I noticed where I now live, KY, the gas prices have a predictable pattern, the likes of which I’ve never seen before. In Seattle (my home for 45 years) gas would go up a penny or two, and go down a penny or two. it was like an undulating ocean surface. If prices were making a big change in one direction or another over a long period, the “ocean surface” would slant up or down, but it was relatively gradual.
Here in KY, It’s a sawtooth. It goes down gradually. A penny here, two cents there. But it goes up like a rocket. I’ve actually seen, with no news whatsoever to justify it, the price go up as much as $.47 in a single day. And it’s not a station here or there. I would drive out of town (Etown at the time) and gas was $3.15 at every single station, regardless of brand. And then go to work the next morning and every single station was at $3.54. All brands.
People tall me it’s always been that way.
And Chicago has always been corrupt. That don’t make it right.