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Orlando Motorists Pay $4 For Gallon Of Gas

AAA: National Gas Average Is $2.87

POSTED: Monday, April 23, 2007
UPDATED: 12:47 pm EDT April 24, 2007

The average price of gasoline may have jumped across the U.S., but nothing like the spike seen at a gas station near the airport over the weekend.

The Problem Solvers found a gas station in Orlando near the airport charging $4 for a gallon of regular.

"I was shocked," motorist Cindy Confer said after purchasing $4 gas. "I was thinking we should have gone down the road."

"You didn't stop to look before you started pumping?" Local 6's Mike DeForest said.

"I looked out here," Confer said.

Local 6 reported that the prices were not put on any signs at the business.

The station was also selling Plus gas for $4.09 and charging $4.19 for premium gas, the report said.

"I would not put those prices on the big sign out there, either, and they didn't," Local 6's Marla Weech said.

The original report aired on Local 6 News identified the retail as a Chevron-branded business.

Stephanie Price of the Chevron Corporation said Tuesday in an e-mail to Local6.com that the Chevron station at the location previously received “numerous complaints” about the business and was investigated by the company.

"For multiple reasons, Chevron chose to ends its branding relationship with the site effective Nov. 2006," Price said in the e-mail.

Officials with AAA said $4 for a gallon of regular gas is well above the average price in Orlando and Daytona Beach.

Motorist in Orlando are paying $2.87 and $2.94 in Daytona Beach.

The national average is $2.87 a gallon, according to AAA.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

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