Live Wire: Why are Lumberton gas prices higher than Fayetteville's?
Q: RE your June 7 story about gas prices. I recently traveled through Fayetteville and saw prices in the $2.30s and got back to Lumberton and they were in the $2.60s. How can Lumberton gouge people like this? Why is there such a difference? — T.P., LumbertonA: The price of gas is set by the individual retailers — the owners of the stores and the distributors — so it may not be anyone in Lumberton making that […]
