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Marseilles to investigate local gas prices · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Marseille to investigate local gas prices. Written by Matthias Warner.
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  Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. After Ottawa saw some success when
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  Speaker 1: it looked into it, Marseille is considering investigating its own
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  Speaker 1: high gas prices. The Marseille City Council authorized the investigation
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  Speaker 1: and appropriate legal actions concerning the issue, following similar action
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  Speaker 1: taken in Ottawa. We want to figure out why the
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  Speaker 1: gas prices in Marseilles are the highest as opposed to LaSalle,
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  Speaker 1: Ottawa or Morris. Marseille. Accounts and Finance Commissioner Bobby Kiminski said,
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  Speaker 1: we want to understand why this is happening in Marseilles
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  Speaker 1: and if there's any price gouging. The actions of Marseille
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  Speaker 1: city officials mirror the process that Ottawa has already undertaken.
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  Speaker 1: It's very interesting how after we pass a resolution looking
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  Speaker 1: into gas prices, gas prices in Ottawa went down. Ottawa
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner of Public Health and Safety Tom Gannier said at
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  Speaker 1: Ottawa's July seventh City Council meeting, I still want our
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  Speaker 1: council to continue to look into that. In my mind,
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  Speaker 1: that's almost an admission of price gouging. In a message
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  Speaker 1: to Marseille Mayor Jim Hollenbeck, Casey's director of Retail Fuel,
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  Speaker 1: Cody Stabs said that a range of changing factors can
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  Speaker 1: impact individual sites differently, even in proximity to one another.
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  Speaker 1: Temporary price differences between nearby communities can occur and are
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  Speaker 1: not uncommon, which is what you are seeing occur between Marseilles,
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  Speaker 1: Ottawa and other nearby communities where the variety of individual
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  Speaker 1: competitors in a specific area have significant influence on pricing decisions.
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  Speaker 1: Stop said. While city council authorized the investigation, the decision
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  Speaker 1: was not unanimous. Streets and Improvements Commissioner Mike Schi brought
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  Speaker 1: up four specific concerns with the resolution follow through on
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  Speaker 1: any many recommendations, the city's proximity to the state average
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  Speaker 1: for gas prices, the alienation of the gas providers, and
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  Speaker 1: marseilles continued devotion of resources to litigation. Shide said that
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  Speaker 1: Marseille's average gas price is hovering around eight cents over
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  Speaker 1: the state average, which he said is no reason to
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  Speaker 1: alienate the city's gas providers through any potential legal action.
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  Speaker 1: He did concede that the higher prices drive customers, including himself,
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  Speaker 1: to other municipalities and contribute to their domestic sales tax
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  Speaker 1: revenue rather than Marseilles