Complaints pour in of Pilot gas stations gouging customers in the Tennessee Smokies

Pilot gas stations are gouging customer buying gas in Tennessee according to hundreds of complaint pouring in. While Hurricanes Gustav and Ike may have effected production, and prices for crude are at a 4 moth low customers are crying at the pumps.

Gas stations are running out of gas all throughout the Smokies as panic buying sets in with rumors of $7 a gallon gas are making tempers flare and gas stations gouging the public. The majority of the complaints coming in about unfair gas prices pilot gas stations.

If you see price gouging on gas you can report it to the US Department of Energy.

Gas running low and stations price gouging running high in the Smokies due to hurricane Ike

Hurricane Ike may be almost 1,000 miles away but drivers in the Smokies are getting pounded by the storm as well with price gouging and gas shortages throughout Tennessee and North Carolina.

Reports started coming in yesterday of gas shortages and price increases in the Asheville area, but these reports of drivers finding it hard to find gas or complaining about increases of 50 cents or more a gallon within minutes.

The highest price we have heard of so far in Pigeon Forge was $4.69 a gallon - astonishing considering it as $3.42 gallon a week ago.

There will be a huge influx of drivers coming into Pigeon Forge, Sevierville and Gatlinburg to take park of the Rod Run. Lets' hope they are all gassed up before they get here.