As gas prices hit another record last Friday, Jeff Curro couldn’t take it anymore. 84677Gas Prices After owning the Shell gas station at 3075 N. 124th St. in Brookfield for 20 years, Jeff Curro has stopped selling gas. As gas prices rose, his profit margin dropped. He wasn’t a motorist at the pump fed up by the blur of numbers spinning higher as he filled his tank. Curro is a gas station owner who has stopped selling gas to his own customers. After selling gas at N. 124th and W. Burleigh streets for 20 years, Curro turned off his pumps at his Shell station in Brookfield when the price he was being asked to pay was just too much. Including the wholesale cost of gas and other taxes and charges, he was being asked to pay $3.44 a gallon Friday, a day when the competing stations down the street were selling gasoline for $3.47. ‘Three cents a gallon doesn’t cut it,’ Curro said. ‘It doesn’t pay the bills.’ Add to that the money he loses every time a motorist uses a credit card at the pump, and there was no reason to keep […]