Associated Food and Petroleum Dealers Vice President Ed Weglarz says you can blame some of disproportion on the cold winter weather.

 

"They've turned the crank so they're making more heating oil proportionately than they are gasoline, so that reduces the amount of gasoline," said Weglarz.

 

LISTEN to Ed Weglarz explain the prices

 

He also says that when prices were soaring last year, retailers were absorbing a lot of the cost.  He says gasoline prices should have been around $5 gallon.  As a result, some retailers went out of business, according to Weglarz, so others are making a few extra pennies a gallon.

 

"They have to make money selling gasoline," said Weglarz.  "You can't continue to sell gasoline below what it costs you to put it into the customer's car and make it up on the cigarettes and the sunglasses and the pop and those things."

 

Gasoline prices in the Akron area range from $1.73 - $2.54 today.  Find out what it costs in your area.