Twice each month, Gail Strohmeyer climbs into her Ford pickup and drives 20 minutes south for the cheapest gas she can find. “I refuse to get gas anywhere else than the first BP station crossing the line into South Carolina,” said Strohmeyer, a Gastonia retiree.

She lives near Rhyne Elementary School in Gastonia and said the 10-mile drive makes sense because gas is so much cheaper in South Carolina than anywhere in Gastonia. A proposed change in the Palmetto State could cut into that savings. It exists mainly because South Carolina’s gas tax is 21 cents less per gallon than North Carolina’s.

The Marathon station on U.S. 321 and Gateway Farm Road — barely inside South Carolina — was $1.79 per gallon of regular gas Tuesday. Roughly 5 miles north, a WilcoHess station at York Road and Carson Drive, was selling regular for 17 cents more per gallon. Gastonia’s cheapest gas? The WilcoHess on West Franklin Boulevard, which was at $1.90 per gallon Tuesday.

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