Drivers Say Virginia Gas Station Charged $6.99 per Gallon as AG Investigates Price Gouging

Drivers Say Virginia Gas Station Charged $6.99 per Gallon as AG Investigates Price Gouging
Out of service fuel nozzles are covered in plastic on a gas pump at a gas station in Waynesville, N.C., on May 11, 2021. Martin Brossman via Reuters
Jack Phillips
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A BP gas station in Virginia was charging up to $6.99 per gallon amid a gas shortage that was triggered by a cyberattack that impacted a major U.S. fuel pipeline, according to local reporters and motorists.

“It was a lot of people there, no one looked at the price,” said Lether Kerney, a motorist, to WTVR. Kerney said she pulled up to the BP pump and apparently didn’t notice the price, which was $5.99 per gallon at the time, until she filled up her tank.

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