To: The Minnesota State House, The Minnesota State Senate, and Governor Tim Walz
Stop Minnesota Gas Pump Price Gouging Scam
Minnesota now has the highest gas prices in the nation, because two refineries in Illinois have decided to shut down for repairs and have asked minnesota's refinery in Rosemount to send our gas over to them. This is ridiculous The timing of this is very interesting, as it takes place between the two busiest holidays in summer. This is hurting all the small business in Minnesota and will send our economy in a tail spin. We need to stand up, speak out and demand changes.
Why is this important?
Within the last week, Minnesota's gasoline prices have jumped to the highest in the nation, even more than Hawaii. A month ago we were about 3.29 a gallon and now we have jumped to 4.45 a gallon and rising daily. They are claiming that this is because 2 refineries in Illinois have decided to do maintenance and are shutting down producton. Interestingly this is going to start before the busiest travel holiday season, between Memorial day and the 4th of July. This was definatly a preplanned action. There are not any gas stations that are running out of gas, they all have plenty and yet prices are going up daily. Minnesota has its own gasoline refinery which is suppossed to supply our gas. We are once again being ripped off by big Oil by their price gouging during the summer holiday season. What normal business would shut down for maintenance, during the busiest travel season. We own a small business and with these prices people are cutting corners and are not spending, this will cause a rippling effect to the Minnesota Economy. We need to speak out and devulge our minnesota elected officials with emails and phone calls to investigate this scam that is being run on the Minnesota People.