In rural Alaska, much of the fuel is used in ATVs, snow machines, and boats, not cars. The village generator runs on very costly diesel fuel and heating oil goes for a premium. Jobs are scarce and household income and other conditions are more like a Third World Country than what I see when I pass through Denver. There is a strong suspicion that monopolies and oligopolies price fuel opportunistically. Looks that way to me. Alaskans don't own those companies, American investors do.