Gas station woes

Of course, it hurts our pocketbook to see gas prices rise above $3.50 a gallon, but according to this quote from Time magazine,
"The farther you get from the wellhead, the greater the misery. There's a lot of stations across the country that are literally on the brink of bankruptcy."
-- TOM KLOZA of the Oil Price Information Service in Wall, N.J., on the impact of the rising price of gasoline on service stations