How much is a gallon of gas in your neck of the woods?

[Sandpiper]

Here in San Diego, the cheapest is now $1.99/gal.

[On the Road]

1. Lowest is $1.63 in the Maryland Suburbs of DC

[arwalden]

12. DC / Fort Washington-Oxon Hill, MD $1.69

[alfredo]

2. Lowest in the Bluegrass region $1.68

No telling what it goes for in small towns.

[alwynsw]

53. Come up to Brandenburg. It's $1.63 at the BP and Chevron stations.

[alfredo]

87. Haven't been in Brandenburg since my crazy youth.

I lived in Shively, but dated some of the "Army Brats" over at fort Knox. Brandenburg road had some nice quiet places for making out.

My first car came from Muldrough, A two door canary yellow Comet. it was a fun car.

Gas was a lot cheaper then.

[utopian]

3. Saw $1.77 today at a discount place in Portland

It's gone up quite a bit in the last week or so.

[Bronco69]

4. The last time I looked in Dallas

it was $1.54. That was a week ago. It may have changed since then.

[Xithras]

5. Just filled up in Sacramento $1.94 a gallon

n/t

[leftyandproud]

6. $1.48 in KY

[FeelinGarfunkelly]

47. Same in NE Missouri-- 1.48

[mantis49]

79. West Central IL

$1.58

[alwynsw]

54. Where's that, Henderson?

Gas is usually cheaper there than anywhere else in the state. Either there or on the TN border.

[madrchsod]

7. about 1.60-1.64

in northern Illinois-outside Chicago.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. $193.9 in the city of Chicago.

n/t.

[Beaker]

43. $1.73/gallon today at the O'Hare tollway oasis outside the city.

same price at the bargain station in Elgin, 35 miles west.

[girl gone mad]

9. $1.57 in North Dallas. n/t

[Maccagirl]

10. $1.91 for premium in Columbus, OH

It shot up .20 in one day.

[BOSSHOG]

11. $1.49 in South Mississippi

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. $1.57/ gal here in Weatherford, $1.46 about 42 miles east of here

in El Reno. Crazy shit. Did you know that there is no logic in the price of gas? It's just whatever they wanna charge. The price can change five or six times between refinery and the gas station. It's ridiculous. Damn oil companies.
Duckie

[Dissenting_Prole]

25. Remember the symptoms of Oil Peak

like, wildly oscillating prices

"Their immediate, natural gut reaction will be that they've been gypped by somebody, they've been ripped off by the oil companies, they will smell some kind of conspiracy that someone's to blame all for this. And when people feel themselves defrauded or conspired against they often over-react....simply because the unfortunate people have not been told."

Colin Campbell
of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil
in "The End of Suburbia"


http://www.brant.net/gvmr/electric.htm

[Capn Sunshine]

14. 2.25 in Ventura County

Lundberg says to expect 3 bucks soon.

[catzies]

77. Trilby Lundberg is right --Unocal full-service in Camarillo is $2.99

It's not under $2.00 anywhere now that I've seen in Ventura/Oxnard/Camarillo/Newbury Park over the last few days.

[PaveThePlanet]

15. Not as much as Europe....

I refuse to bitch until it gets to $6 or $7 a gallon

[Djinn]

39. nice to hear

in Australia (with no public transport comparable to European transport) it's at $3.75ish per gallon - in the regional areas it's over $5, it's hard to be too sympathetic to "outrageous" prices of 1-2 dollars a gallon - in the states how much does a gallon of milk cost?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

40. Milk costs about the same as your gas...

I'd wish we had higher pump prices, too, if it meant that we'd have state-of-the-art rail services and other public transportation.

[Djinn]

42. I wish we had even a crappy rail system

the public transport system in AUstralia is as shite as the US - Europe gets it almost right.

Here, if you live outide the metro areas then there's pretty much nothing, within the metro area of Melbourne for example there has not been a single extension to the rail network since the thirties - the population increase in that time was enormous. In Melbourne if you live in a suburb west of the city and you want to travel to somewhere north of the CBD you have to go into tiown and out again as the grid is laid out like a spoke.

Often when the petrol price thing comes up people will mention the public transport situation thinking that it's comparable to Europe, it's not it'd be more comparable to the situation in California - bugger all public transport and a government committed to building yet more and more private toll roads.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

50. I'm curious, then...

Are your high prices the result of taxes, or the import cost?

[Lost in GA]

90. Bush cut Amtrac funds

The Misadministration is pushing to cut Amtrac funding. I forget the amount, but the federal funding this year will be about the amount that it takes to build 22 miles of highway.
By the way, Guiness lover, trains in Dublin are beautiful, relatively cheap, and more or less on time.
I'll lift a pint of the good stuff to that!

[Deja Q]

16. $1.73/gal but that was back on Friday

Sigh. It's only to get worse too.

Damn republicans. x(

[Sandpiper]

19. I know what you mean

It's gone up about 25 cents in the past week around here.

[lowreed]

17. still 1.99 in Long Island City and >$2 here in NYC

[K8-EEE]

18. $2.03 at the cheapo station here in L.A.

I really want a hybrid car!! My next one will def by a hybrid.

[ronatchig]

20. Outside charlotte NC

1.60 for ss reg. Damn republican gas prices.

[mlawson]

23. The same for Asheville and Knoxville. n/t

[ncrainbowgrrl]

34. $1.63/gallon in Chapel Hill, NC n/t

[gristy]

21. $1.79-$1.99 outside Boston

In the supermarket (Stop & Shop) tonight:

Ground Round: $4.29/lb
9 apples (organic, red delicious): $3.99
1 gallon 1% milk: $3.09
1/2 gallon OJ: $3.29

For most of my years, I didn't pay attention to prices. I am now, but I really don't know if these are much higher than, say, a year ago. But they seem high to me now.

High/rising gasoline prices would hurt the chimp big time. Don't they normally rise over the summer? I am searching the web right now for gasoline price projections for this year. No luck so far.

[gristy]

22. Here's what the guvmint has to say about gasoline prices

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/steo/pub/contents.html

High crude oil prices over the last 2 months pushed gasoline costs and pump prices up to $1.57 per gallon in January from $1.48 per gallon in December. First quarter 2004 national average gasoline prices are now expected to be about $1.62 per gallon for regular grade. Gasoline prices are expected to average $1.57 per gallon in 2004, a penny more than the average for 2003. A smooth transition to summer gasoline blends would be required to add confidence to those expectations. Current gasoline inventories are in the low range, reducing chances for near-term price relief.

Average of all prices posted here so far is $1.74/gallon. Though some people probably posted premium grade price, prices appear to be exceeding the gov'ts projections at this point.

[catzies]

83. But does that include any state or local taxes? Our posts of prices do

because we can't tell unless you read the fine print on the taxes sticker at the pump.

When all you're doing is driving by, and from the street you see $2.15/gal for unleaded, that's what you're paying before you know the breakdown between taxes & actual fuel cost.

We're both right; it depends on what the meaning of "is" is. :)

[catzies]

84. Ok, per this link from MSNBC detailing state/other taxes...

"Gasoline Price Mysteries Revealed," http://www.msnbc.com/news/423165.asp


California
State Excise: 18.0
Other State Taxes: 15.5
Total State Taxes: 33.5
Total Federal & State Taxes: 51.9

Added to your $1.62 gallon = $2.139/gallon.

Yup.

[gristy]

85. My guess is the price of gas indicated by the doe includes taxes.

.

[NightTrain]

24. Regular gas in Hartford, CT: about $1.73 a gallon

n/t

[jonnyblitz]

30. yup. that is basically the cost down here near the casinos also.

eom.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. Gas Buddy says you can find it for $1.87

Check it out: http://www.sandiegogasprices.com/

The main site is: http://www.gasbuddy.com/
You can fins the cheapest prices for your area there.

[Sandpiper]

36. Thanks for the info!

The cheapest price listed in my area was $1.87, but that was on Friday. :-( Oh well, even at $1.99 I'm below average for the area which is $2.089

[evworldeditor]

27. It's Only Going to Keep Going Up

Gradually, inevitably, it's only going to keep going up for a number of reasons, including refinery capacity issues, increasing demand (more and more SUVs and pickups on the road), greater competition on the global market with China and others, and gradually declining world production.

I just attended an SAE Hydrogen/Fuel Cell conference in Sacramento where unleaded was something like $1.87 a gallon and up. A BP employee attended, as well. When a presenter brought up the vast reserves of Canadian tar sands, the BP employee called it "junk" even if it was now being processes for as little as $8 a barrel. He commended that the real problem is that the world isn't running out of oil. The problem is it is running out of cheap, easily extractable sweet crude, around which the industry has been built.

What the industry is now dealing with is an increasing percentage of crude that is dirtier, deeper and harder to refine. That means only one thing, folks... increasingly expensive fuel and everything else that depends on it.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

28. Litres to gallons, reais to dollars... lessee...

$2.57 a gallon. Ouch.

[kdmorris]

29. South Florida $1.75/reg - $1.95/Premium (nt)

[Catshrink]

31. $1.79 at the cheap station in Mesa, AZ

armpit of the Valley of the Dumb.

[CO Liberal]

32. $1.53 in Pueblo, Colorado

Three cents off at Safeway, Albertsons, King Soopers, or Loaf & Jug if you use your club card.

[MrSandman]

33. $1.65 in SE West Virginia

[GOPisEvil]

35. $1.47-$1.55 here in Austin

I paid $1.48 yesterday.

[gate of the sun]

37. in Santa Fe

168 per gallon. not as bad as california.

[VOX]

38. $2.12 for premium in West Los Angeles...

Ka-ching, ka-ching...thank God I don't commute.

[arewethereyet]

41. 1.45 richmond va

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

44. Oh about 3.7 litres, why?

hehehehe

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

68. Offtopic

Did shinee thingee arrivee?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

76. My wife informs me there is indeed a strange package

in the mail at home today.
So, I guess so, thanks.
Will advise.

[muriel_volestrangler]

91. Bzzzz, no

4.54 litres ...

[fortyfeetunder]

45. Seattle area averaging $1.62 for regular

I drove from Seattle to Olympia and back this weekend and that was the average I saw...

[ironflange]

46. Canada here, have to convert

I paid 64.9 cents a litre this morning, which works out to about 48.7 cents US, now times 3.7 l/gal gives $1.80 or so. Not bad.

Edit: I've seen it as high as 69.9 and as low as 61.9 today. Figure it out yerself.

[Kellanved]

48. you don't want to know

Had to convert, ca. $5.12

Told you so , :hi: .

[ButterflyBlood]

49. $1.60 in south central Minnesota

n/t

[Vernunft II]

51. 5.27 US$ here in Regensburg, Bavaria

That´s 1,10 €UR for a liter and assuming that 1 gallon is 3.8 liters and based on todays exchange rate of 1 €UR being 1.26 US$.

Welcome to drivers Hell :-)

[DarkSim]

61. 1,10EUR in Regensbourg! That's cheap!

it's 1,90EUR in Helsinki Finland!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

66. AIEEEEEEE

I felt PAIN reading that and I don't even have a car!!!!

[ArwenJade]

52. $1.69 in Utah

That's the cheapest, too.

[Awsi Dooger]

55. $1.93 at the cheapest spots in Las Vegas

Up 20 cents in a couple of weeks.

Prior to the Iraq war, unleaded was $1.28 here. That's 65 cents per gallon, or a sizeable chunk of that glorious Bush tax cut every time the average Joe fills up.

[radfringe]

56. Wilkes-Barre PA area $1.65-$1.69 average

expect it to go up higher...

meanwhile, does anyone else recall bush*'s words back in October 2000?

We went through a sort-of gas crunch, Clinton opened the reserves, bush* called it a campaign stunt and said that when he was pResident he would tell OPEC to keep those spigots open

ummmm...I don't hear him telling OPEC to keep the spigots open...do you?

[RebelOne]

57. Here in the metro Atlanta area it is $1.50-$1.60 for regular.

[ScreamingMeemie]

58. $1.75...Detroit Michigan

:hi:

[gator_in_Ontario]

59. 75 cents

per liter

[DarkSim]

60. Beijing: 10 yuan 50 fen ($1.1)

only 92 octane max... I'm too used to 95 and 98 in Finland.

[skippysmom]

62. Paid $1.66 Friday on Cape Cod

It's a little cheaper off-Cape.

I've also noticed that the price of everything seems to be going up.

[Dark]

63. Here it's $1.67.

[ProfessorGAC]

64. In My Town, $1.789. But,. . .

. . .in Kankakee county i've seen regular for as much as 11 cents higher. That was just last night.
The Professor

[TheMightyFavog]

65. In Marinette, WI, $1.749

I'm short on cash for the next few weeks, so I could only afford to put 11 gallons in.

[SCDem]

67. $1.47 in South Carolina

it just went up 2 cents.

[Cannikin]

69. $1.63 In Little Rock, AR

[Bertha Venation]

70. Waldorf, MD (35 mi. away from Wash. DC) $1.65.9 eom

[bearfan454]

71. 1.59 for midgrade unleaded in Taylor Tx

.

[Cuban_Liberal]

72. $1.69 for mid-grade unleaded here in central IL.

I think regular is $1.61 and premium is $1.80...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

73. 2/23/04 Saugarties NY ...Hess $1.72 regular

[Tims]

74. $1.49 at discounters in Houston

$1.53-$1.59 for major brands

[Mr. McD]

75. $2.13 this morning in Riverside CA.

[Zinfandel]

78. The war in Iraq was going to lower gas prices all the right-wing clowns

tried to convince us, when we knew all along the invasion was bullshit (and still they are trying). $2.19 in San Francisco.

[tigerbeat]

80. $2.05 in LA

that's the cheapest i've seen it in the last few days. i freaking blinked my eyes and the price shot up.

[Goldberg]

81. $1.72 in St. Paul, MN.

[UnAmericanJoe]

82. I paid a $1.84

East of Seattle.

[elperromagico]

86. $1.59 right now in Hot Springs, AR, I think.

[bobthedrummer]

88. $1.69 in Green Bay

eom

[Lost in GA]

89. lowest is 1.46