Gas price in your area?

[B Calm]

Last night I filled up at $1.78 per gallon in Lafayette, Indiana. It was $2.00 more a gallon last summer!

Under George W Bush leadership it was close to $5.00 per gallon in this area. Some areas of the country was over $5.00.

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Wow!

It's still around 2.40 here. There are some places in the next county south where it's under $2.30, but nothing like what you're describing.

On Edit: I should have said where "here" is. About 60 miles south of Chicago

[B Calm]

3. $1.75 per gallon is the cheapest in this area.

Last edited Tue Dec 23, 2014, 11:21 AM - Edit history (1)

http://www.indianagasprices.com/

[B Calm]

25. Correction: now it's $1.73 per gallon

http://www.indianagasprices.com/

[Stellar]

32. And that's why people in Chicago zip on over to Indiana.

It's still 2.49 around here...the cheapest I've seen. But it's a heck of a lot better then it was.

[JaneyVee]

2. $2.79 now here in NYC and dropping.

[n2doc]

4. You are in the low area for the US

Check out
http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx

[yeoman6987]

5. It was$1.86 when President Obama was inaugurated

It will go below that for the country which is good. I'd like it to go to$.90 when President Clinton was President. Talk about helping the poor and working class.

[MANative]

6. $2.53 is the low (Costco) and $2.69 is the average...

here in northern Fairfield Country, CT.

[Chiyo-chichi]

7. I have always thought gas prices were higher in Bloomington, IN

that in the surrounding area (and usually higher than Indianapolis) because it's a college town. But I guess that's not it since you filled up in (or adjacent to) a college town in the same state.

$2.18 is the lowest in the Bloomington area... but I'm not complaining.

[B Calm]

8. Crawfordsville, Indiana is the cheapest at $1.75 per gallon, Wabash College is in

Crawfordsville.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

9. and as soon as the gas price drops

the people in GA are talking about raising the gas tax. the working class gets the shaft again...

sP

[riversedge]

28. yup. WI is almost a Billion short on its budget so we expect increases

also

[HereSince1628]

61. I dunno about that...the referendum on Transportation Fund Amendement passed very comfortably

There's always a good chance of hypocrisy when dealing with R's but ...

The GOP legislators are on record of being opposed to using transportation funds on anything but transportation projects.

They really beat the drum with Doyle's (D-Gov) use of transportation funds to support various programs including pubic education in the face of the budget mess handed over.

[Lil Missy]

10. $1.98

Across the river from Omaha

[elias49]

11. $2.45 in my part of New Hampshire. nt

[MelungeonWoman]

12. $1.97 yesterday in Columbus, Ohio. n/t

[lonestarnot]

17. Same here yesterday Costco AZ.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. $2.14 Goodlettsville, Tn at Krogers last night. I have fuel points for 50 cents off a gallon.

[Go Vols]

30. $2.10 in Manchester

[sinkingfeeling]

14. $1.84

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. 2.13 (regular) about 90 miles north of Mobile Al.

But a low of 1.99 in Mobile.

Funny how even these low prices can vary so much across the country...guess taxes make that difference?

edited to add:

In Mobile, Chevron, Exxon, Shell, in some places are charging 2.25 to 2.29.
I do not get why they can even stay in business, there is so much competition at a lower price there, a gas station on every corner, almost.

[Ink Man]

16. I just got back

from a long weekend in New Orleans and saw gas at $1.98. Back home now in So Cal I see $2.68. We tax our gas real hard.

[PasadenaTrudy]

22. Alhambra Costco

is at $2.39. Cheapest I've seen in SoCal so far...

[Lugnut]

18. $2.59

Lower Luzerne Co NEPA.

[Mnemosyne]

19. $2.70 NW PA with refineries about 35 miles away. nt

[meow2u3]

20. $2.57 in my part of the Lehigh Valley, PA

Gas was $2.59 this morning and went down 2 cents more today. With my loyalty card, I get 3 cents off a gallon, making it $2.54/gal.

[craigmatic]

21. 2.25

[ladyVet]

23. Here in the Middle of Nowwhere, NC...

(AKA northern Alamance County) I think the lowest I saw when I was out the other day was 2.34. Depending on where we are here -- near the highway or out in the country -- it varies by a few cents.

Still no idea why prices are falling, though. Wouldn't higher prices make the argument that we need fracking and drilling everywhere under the sun more believable?

[foo_bar]

24. 1.59€ / liter (Berlin, DE)

$7.34 per gallon I think. On the plus side, I don't need a car here thanks to the lavish spending on public transportation, and the long-haul passenger trains make the Autobahn look slow.

[riversedge]

26. $2.49 in mid WI

[upaloopa]

27. I don't think it matters who is President.

I think this is a battle between the drill baby drill folks and OPEC.
And this time it isn't tree huggers that will curtail oil production in this country.
Drilling here was never in the consumer's best interest.

[Bandit]

29. Just dropped to $3.59 yesterday

And that is for unleaded regular. Diesel is going for $3.65. So you guys can ALL consider yourselves fortunate. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to EVERYONE

[Blue_In_AK]

36. Are you in Fairbanks?

It's a little cheaper in Anchorage, but still higher than it should be. But what else is new, right?

[Bandit]

39. I'm in Juneau

Anchorage is at least thirty to forty cents a gallon cheaper. Don't know why?

[Blue_In_AK]

40. Oh, I knew that.

Forgive me for forgetting. Maybe it's expensive down there because there are no roads in? It kind of pisses me off that we have all this oil up here and yet we pay almost the highest prices in the country. We're getting hit with a double whammy now, with oil prices that finance state government down but our gas prices still high.

[2naSalit]

31. $2.87 in

SW Montana where it's been a few cents shy of $4.00/gal for the last five years at least. Being 100 miles, at least, from the nearest fuel depot has something to do with that but I am thrilled to have it that low while I am unemployed.

[Nye Bevan]

33. I was happy when it fell below $3 (nt)

[Ryan Fitzomething]

34. Higher Than It Should Be in Alaska

But that was true under Bush, too.

[Blue_In_AK]

35. About $3.10 most places, $3.02 at Costco (in Anchorage)

Still high because the oil companies like to gouge Alaska, but it's lower than it's been for a while.

[rusty fender]

37. Lowest I saw last night was $1.89

in SF, NM.

[AngryOldDem]

38. In Indianapolis and the suburbs gas is $2.09.

Cheaper if you have a discount card. Today we filled up with a discount card and it was $1.80.

Last Saturday I filled up my car with about 8 1/2 gallons and paid $18-something. I save my gas receipts and I did a quick check and I found a receipt from last winter when I filled up with about 9 gallons and paid $37.

I do a lot of driving in winter, and man, do I hope this holds out for a few months more.

[RebelOne]

41. Average price here in North Georgia was $2.39 today. n/t

[Earth_First]

42. $2.89 Rochester, New York

This is in town, it's cheaper closer to the city.

[tabbycat31]

43. $2.18 (Neptune, NJ Wawa)

As of yesterday. I wouldn't mind if it drops by Christmas Day as I travel then.

[Rhiannon12866]

44. Yikes! I'm in Northeastern NY and paid $2.70-a-gallon tonight

And it was a "gas sale" today, 5-cents off a gallon. Most stations around here are charging anywhere from $2.75 to $2.80-a-gallon right now. And it wasn't that long ago that it got close to $5. When the prices started going up, I joined GasBuddy, where people post local prices from all over the US and Canada, to find the lowest prices near me. It's quite helpful!

http://www.gasbuddy.com/

[LAGC]

46. $2.15 in Boise, Idaho.

And we usually tend to be on the high side since the nearest refinery is several hundred miles away down in Utah...

[hobbit709]

47. $1.95 around the corner from me.

[mnhtnbb]

48. gasbuddy has great pricing maps

http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx

[B Calm]

49. Wow, Crawfordsville, Indiana is now down to $1.69 pg.

[ileus]

50. 2.17 SWVA

[Atman]

51. Filled up for 2.37/gal yesterday. In CT, most expensive gas in the country.

And I we filled up the heating oil tank for the first time in years (instead of just getting the minimum delivery). Hard to complain.

[redstateblues]

52. 1.98 in Nashville

[Omaha Steve]

53. I saw $1.99 in Omaha Monday at Kwik Shops

I hear it is is as low as $1.93 this AM at a couple places.

[sorefeet]

54. Billings Montana $2.23

as of yesterday. Who knows what it is today. But I'm likeing it.

[Sedona]

55. Weird ass Los Angeles checking in

$2.59 at Cadillac and La Cienega
$4.39 one mile away at La Cienega and Pico because Beverly Hills people would never be caught on THAT side of town.



Edited to add most awesome app ever to for finding cheap gas

http://www.gasbuddy.com/

[PasadenaTrudy]

59. I love gasbuddy! n/t

[Ishoutandscream2]

56. 1.87. Just outside Dallas.

[NOLALady]

57. NOLA area 1.83 per gallon.

[SomethingFishy]

58. $1.95 in Denver yesterday..

However with my Kroeger(King Soopers in Colorado) card I got 40 cents off and paid 1.55 Filled my car for under twenty bucks.

[B Calm]

60. NOW that is a great price!

[Andy823]

62. North Central Washington state $2.49

Went shopping 25 miles away in another small town, but not as small as mine, and paid $2.07. The town I live in always has higher prices, especially on holidays. I expect to see it drop next week, or after new years.

[olddots]

63. 2.59 $ regular

In Douchelandia L.A. and a strange Shell station with 4.39$ gas and only the classiest customers .

[Skittles]

64. $1.87

[X_Digger]

65. $1.85 in Fort Worth, TX. ($1.45 w/ Kroger card points.)

[Broken_Hero]

66. 1.95 in SW Missouri, nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

67. 2.50

[ohheckyeah]

68. $1.99 at a locally owned station and store in

Bedford County, VA.

[JonLP24]

69. I last saw $2.23

Gas prices are mostly out of the Presidents' control. I mean mostly by 70% which I'm low-balling. Presidents can certainly impact things, wars consume a lot of oil and there was much more of that going on. Investment into alternative fuels & efficiency can lower the demand. Geopolitics seem to play less a role then it used to--something like ISIS & Syria would have driven up the a prices a decade ago.

North American crude production certainly is a contributing factor but low prices would see employment losses in the states that saw the employment gains. Low gas prices can also be a sign of a higher unemployment -- less demand from less people driving to work(that doesn't appear to be the case for the US but I saw claims of East Asia struggling economies contributing to the low prices but I don't have much knowledge of that. The odds of global recession appear to be good. US is in good shape because the higher prices had a harmful effect as an oil importer but the low prices don't hurt because they aren't dependent on the oil industry. Individual states would be more effected, Wyoming is the most dependent.

My point is these prices are going to go up and down. Competitors have to offer lower prices to compete with the Saudi price which is a game changer aside from the usual supply & demand adjusting. Eventually everyone involved is going to cut back and the price will go back up.