You have not made your case. This is a matter of a station trying to make a profit. As everyone who has ever been in a position of bottom-line responsibility knows, you do what you can to make your profit projections.
I am not saying, however, that you'll never see a case of price gouging at the station level. We had one right here in my town on September 12, 2001. I haven't done business with that station since.
Sheesh, I wasn't making a case, I had a suspicion and was asking a question. I think this was obvious in the interchange dangus and I had (Thanks d). Please read more carefully, and if you want to pick a fight go to an evo thread.