'Some will even cuss at me': Drivers fed up with gas prices

EUGENE, Ore. - Dwight Williams deals with a lot of unhappy customers.

"Very angry," he said. "Some of them are really outrageous, some will even cuss at me."

Williams works at a Chevron station in Eugene, Ore.

He said customers are angry over gas prices that seem to have shot up overnight.

"We have been going up on our price like 6 cents every day pretty much," he said.

And it's the same story around Oregon, where prices are hovering just below $4 a gallon. Oregon has one of the highest average gas prices in the country.

Unrest overseas and a recent oil refinery fire are all contributing to paying more at the pump.

"Their goal is to make money and the little people are the ones that pay for it," said customer Carla Robinson

She's not the only one feeling that way. Russ Schrantz said he has his wife Jie are starting to feel the pain at the pump.

"My wife and I just made the decision this morning we're getting her a bike and we'll be biking. So I'll be biking to work from now on," he said.

AAA Oregon said the national average for regular unleaded is $3.57 a gallon.

In Oregon it's $3.68 a gallon.

The average in the Portland/Vancouver area is currently the same as the state average. Eugene drivers pay on average a few pennies more a gallon.
    
By early spring, AAA estimated a gallon of gas will be well over $4 a gallon.

At the Chevron station, Williams got the call Tuesday to raise prices again.

"3.70, 3.89, 3.99, we're increasing by four cents today," said Williams.

Changing the numbers on the big sign out front has become a daily routine that he doesn't see ending any time soon.

"Who knows what it'll be tomorrow," he said.