Myers said his office has found that, in most cases, the price of gas in Oregon is the result of external factors, such as high global crude oil prices, the state's restricted access to pipeline capacity and international political instability.
No evidence of widespread unlawful price fixing, conspiracies in restraint of trade, or other illegal tactics have yet been detected, Myers said.
But he said his office will keep monitoring prices.
"We have worked hard to detect unlawful conduct in this important market, and to take aggressive enforcement action whenever the law and the facts allow," Myers said.
That is Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers on gas price gouging claims in Oregon. What would we do if government officials weren't there to protect us from Big Oil? Oh, yeah: drive to another station.