Gas Price Gouging Hotline Lauched, as Pump Prices Rise

2/22/2013 (Updated 11:03:06 PM)

As gas prices continue to rise, Governor Cuomo has directed  New York's Division of Consumer Protection to  launch a hotline, for New Yorkers to report suspected price  gouging at gas stations:
 
The toll free hotline is 1-800-214-4372.  You can use it to tell officials about sudden and unexpected increases you see in gas prices.

And here is what some motorists around the county are running into:
 
The average price of regular unleaded is $3.99 per gallon  --up five cents from last week,  and  an increase of 30 cents from just one month ago.
-- regular unleaded-- nationally-- is $3.73 per gallon,  a jump of 45 cents in the last month. -------

And in Bingamton, the lowest prices ,according to gasbuddy.com, are $3.89 per gallon at the Kwik Fill and Wave stations on Upper Front Street.