Bulldog offers these observations from Labor Day weekend travels:
-On a 450-mile trip to Evansville, Ind., between Thursday and Sunday I found the gasoline was readily available in every town along I-40 and I-24 at prices ranging from a low of $2.99 in Cookeville, Tenn., to a high of $3.24 in Henderson, Ky. What I can’t figure out is why Asheville’s stock and pricing is so different. I’ve heard suppliers offer the excuse that it costs more to ship to the mountains, but Cookeville, Tenn., is as mountainous as Asheville. And I know that our state highway taxes increase the price, but not enough for the disparity I’ve seen. And, as an aside, despite the higher state taxes, the interstate highways are in worse condition in throughout North Carolina than those I’ve ridden in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana in recent weeks. The so-called “Good Roads State” has become the “Front-End Alignment State.”
Sure makes me wonder what’s going on.