but we must look at who benefits from the higher prices and wonder.

Yet isn't it odd that local gas stations almost always charge the same price for gas and when one raised its price, the others raise their price as well?

My brother works for a major gas station company and he says that they make 3 cents a gallon on average, yet if that is true the oil companies supplying the gas are overcharging the gas stations. He works for a gas station that sells food, soda, bread, and other stuff which make up for the low profit on gas sales.