'Some will even cuss at me': Drivers fed up with gas prices
EUGENE, Ore. - Dwight Williams deals with a lot of unhappy customers.
"Very angry," he said. "Some of them are really outrageous, some will even cuss at me."
Williams works for Chevron on Willamette Street in South Eugene.
He said customers are angry over gas prices that seem to have shot up overnight.
"We have been going up on our price like 6 cents every day pretty much," he said.
And it's the same story from Eugene to Springfield, where prices are hovering just below $4 a gallon.
Unrest overseas and a recent oil refinery fire are all contributing to paying more at the pump.
"Their goal is to make money and the little people are the ones that pay for it," said customer Carla Robinson
She's not the only one feeling that way. Russ Schrantz said he has his wife Jie are starting to feel the pain at the pump.
"My wife and I just made the decision this morning we're getting her a bike and we'll be biking. So I'll be biking to work from now on," he said.
AAA Oregon said the national average for regular unleaded is $3.57 a gallon.
In Oregon it's $3.68 a gallon. But in Eugene and Springfield, prices are hovering between $3.70 and $3.99 a gallon.
By early spring, AAA estimated it will be well over $4 a gallon.
But if you want to find cheap gas, head to the Springfield Arco station, where prices are the same as the national average, $3.57 a gallon.
"I've made trips over here before because the gas is a little cheaper in price," said Arco customer Harlan Austin.
But that's about the only place you'll find it. Back at the Chevron, Williams got the call Tuesday to raise prices again.
"3.70, 3.89, 3.99, we're increasing by four cents today," said Williams.
Changing the numbers on the big sign out front has become a daily routine that he doesn't see ending any time soon.
"Who knows what it'll be tomorrow," he said.
