On Oil August 12, 2005 Lauren The gas station six blocks away from my house lists gas prices at $2.60 a gallon, which means almost forty dollars to fill my tank. Yours?
$2.65 in Bothell, WA. I checked this morning on the way into work. I live in Monroe, WA and I think it is slightly cheaper here. However, it is going up everywhere. The failed oil president pays back his cronies.
$2.37-2.89 in Los Angeles, depending on neighborhood. Apple’s gas widget puts the cheapest price for gas in the Purdue Univ zip at $2.75 (a Speedway on Highway 52?). But the widget is only getting data for five or six stations there, as opposed to the millions in LA, for what it’s worth.
In San Diego, $2.67 for regular unleaded at our local Costco, which is one of the cheapest places around. The highest I’ve seen around here was yesterday–$3.25 for premium unleaded, and a “mere” $3.05 for regular unleaded. And to think that our oil is, in effect, heavily subsidized (or at least not heavily taxed) so it will remain relatively cheap–compared with most of the rest of the world. Meanwhile, one hears the SUV drivers complaining about the prices at the gas stations… Where did Americans get the idea that cheap gas is a right?
I’m from Hampton Roads, Virginia, and it’s about $2.30 here. We get gas cheaper than everywhere else, me thinks.
Its $2.55 here in Ann Arbor. Wow- $2.60 in Indiana!?! And to think I was just bitching to a friend about how for once I wish I lived in Indiana because the gas was prolly so much cheaper there. Never mind……………………………….
Naah, the real cheap gas is in Georgia. The Amoco refinery is up in Yorktown, so that cuts down the transportation cost. Diesel is $2.40 at the local place (with attendants!) and I kinda wish I had something that could run it. We’ve had low-sulfur diesel here for a few years now and I’ll see the occasional TDI Jetta around, but unfortunately the job of the Quality Control manager at the Volkswagen plant is to make sure no quality escapes the factory. I’ll just have to wait and hope everyone else’s diesel cars start showing up in a year or so, and live with the 35 mpg I get now.
2.40 today in Dallas… I’m driving down to Crawford tomorrow, and for the first time in my life I had to consider gas prices into the decision to go on a roadtrip or not.
Tues. evening when I filled up near the Levee gas was $1.49. We had just been listening to NPR tells us about rising prices in Indiana and that we could expect to pay between $1.35 and $1.49. Figures we’d pick the highest place. My suggestions to you are to 1) shop around more and 2) buy a better vehicle. 😉
In Baker, California and up the road in Death Valley the weekend before last, we paid in the 3.20-3.30 range.
$2.75 at my “cheap” gas station at Cashio and La Cienega in Los Angeles. Luckily I drive a 2-door Honda Civic — “only” $30 to fill up my tank —
Anne: $1.49? For one gallon? I haven’t seen prices in that range for, well, a long time! Admittedly, everything is more expensive out here on the Left Coast… Lauren: Out of curiosity, may I ask what kind of car you drive?
$2.45 at my most frequented gas station in Phoenix, as of tonight. I looked on my way home because I am nearly on empty, but I didn’t fill up because it was past midnight, and I am but a small female.
$2.69 is the cheapest in Pleasantville, NY at present. Driving in Pennsylvania last week, I think I got $2.29 – $2.39 in the State College area.
Funny thing. I don’t know. I don’t own a car, and haven’t for about 10 years, so I don’t really pay attention to the price of gas. The hubby has a car, and does most of the driving. Maybe I’ll ask him.
It’s 2.55 where I’m at. Just got back from England though, 91.9 p per LITER, or about $6.65 a gallon, so I’m not griping TOO much.
The link below is to a website that uses Google Maps to help you find the cheapest gas in your state. I got it via Digg.com: http://www.ahding.com/cheapgas/
Ah. I see by fidling around with Gasbuddy that the most expensive gas prices reported in New York state tend to be in my area, Westchester county. (I don’t go to the stations topping their charts.)
2.39 here in OKC. But here you can’t walk or bike without taking your life in your hands (no sidewalks or biketrails), little public transport, and everything is sprawled out.
$2.48/gal. here in Dover, New Hampshire, and that’s the rock-bottom cheapest price in town. I drive an ’82 AMC Concorde with a 25-gallon tank. To fill my tank’d be $62…I haven’t had more than a half-a-tank in my car in longer than I can remember now.
It’s $5.95 in Sweden, and around that level in the entire northern Europe, so stop whining. You don’t need a hummer for weekend shopping (if you do, you can afford the gas…), so if gas is too expensive get yourself a better car. It’s really that simple.
–and as an afterthought (and something I should’ve put in my previous comment,) my husband the Car Nut is thinking very heavily of converting at least -one- of the family vehicles over to bio-diesel and actually purchasing one of those at-home bio-diesel kits. Expensive to start up, but I’m starting to think that it’s worth the effort. And until the Chrysler Natrium becomes a production vehicle *squee!* or we can afford to switch to hybrids for the family vehicles, it may wind up being the smartest option, if we go bio-d before the gas prices spike further. (Of course, the start-up costs are pretty steep, so this is something that’d take some effort, too….)
South San Jose, CA — The low grade gas at the stations 2 blocks from my house range from $2.75 (Valero and Shell) to $2.89 (Chevron). I drove on fumes to work yesterday to buy gas at a Valero in Saratoga, CA for $2.71. I just have issues with having to spend almost $30 bucks to fill up a 1998 Honda Civic.
i’m in Oakland, CA, and last Wednesday I paid 2.74/gallon. as for Sweden’s gas prices, that’s great, if you have an infrastructure not totally designed to force people to buy cars and to drive.
$2.55/$2.65/$2.75 as of midnight last night in North Dallas. This is the highest we’ve EVER seen it in this area, and of course we’re all like “WTF YO?!” I mean, there are oil rigs all over this bitch.
No offense guys but what the hell are you bitchin about. Here in the UK it’s 95p A LITRE so that makes it (drum roll please): $6.53 a GALLON. We should all try to be a little greener – drive a little less, waste a little less and possibly not mind paying a little more for the pollutants we come to rely on.
Charleston, South Carolina- $2.28 It takes me about $45 to fill up my tank and I cringe every time I do it.
The probelm is that one has a very hard time finding work that is withing biking or walking distance from their home. I know that I can’t. (And I do take public transportation, but that’s about twice as long as driving. I don’t have children – I can make the choice to have a commute that is twice as long as driving, but those with kids often can’t). We have had cheap gas for so long that work and home tend to be very far apart. Homes near where the good jobs are _very_ expensive, and the rents are getting rather prohibitive also.
judgemc- Charleston! When I lived there, I pretty much walked everywhere. From our place about 5 blocks north of MUSC to the C of C campus everyday for three years. Such a lovely city.
For the edification of the posters from other countries, I feel I should point out that we don’t all drive Hummers (I would hazard a guess to say that many of us couldn’t really afford them even if we wanted them), and there are people for whom getting a “better” car is not always an option. Now, you folks are right–U.S. gas prices are relatively low and we all need to conserve energy, drive less and be better stewards of the planet in general. But characterizing us as “whining” and “bitching” is not what I would call constructive criticism. Just my two cents.
According to the New York Times the most expensive gas in the nation right now is in San Franciso at $3.15/gallon. I don’t know the actual pricing in Seattle because we use biodiesel. You can make your own at cheaper than the $3/gallon we pay but you have to be surrounded by toxic chemicals (lye and one other that I forget) and unless you use completely fresh vegetable oil, and not used, you have to be very careful of the acidity levels or your car won’t run. Anyway, I was really excited to not only be environmental but to have people paying more for petroleum based gas! whoohoo!
This makes me glad to live in New York: I can ride the subway from Brooklyn, all the way up to the Bronx and back on $4.
I paid $2.69 last night. Filled up my tank (on my Hyundai, thank you very much) for over 30 bucks. We simply cannot afford these gas prices. And public transportation is not an option here – it doesn’t get me anywhere I need to go in a reasonable amount of time, and I’m usually running errands with 2 kids, it’s hot and I’m almost 8 months pregnant. So yeah, I bitch about it. I don’t have any viable alternatives. And for the record, I can’t afford a better car either – it’s all I can do to keep my piece of shit on wheels limping along.
An alternative to brewing your own biodiesel is to do a “greasel” or SVO conversion on your car, to make it run on unmodified (well, filtered) waste vegetable oil. You do need a little regular diesel fuel for startup/shutdown, as SVO only works with a hot engine, but there’s no mucking about with lye in your garage. I was driving an SUV around the Sierra Nevada this week (and actually needed the 4wd, for work, so hush!) – gas was $3.43 in Lee Vining, $3.05-$3.30 elsewhere around Yosemite. Glad someone else was paying for it! Once I finish moving I’ll be selling my car and just renting what I need for field work and the odd weekend road trip.
No input from Canadians? Here in BC it’s 109.8 cents/litre. Works out to around $4/gallon. This is why I bought a car that has only two wheels 🙂
Harrison, I drive a Jeep Liberty. My brother-in-law works for Chrysler and we got it super cheap when my Honda was thrashed by my sister’s driving on Christmas morning. I love the car but it’s a gas guzzler — huge difference from the Civic — and I’ve been trying to park it as much as possible. Alas, I live in the midst of suburban sprawl and don’t have the opportunity to drive it as little as I’d like. This upcoming semester, especially so. To the poor house…
It’s times like these I’m glad to be a tree-hugging, public transit-taking, liberal commie pinko bastard. I have no clue how much the gas is in my area. Heeeeeeeee!
According to the New York Times the most expensive gas in the nation right now is in San Francisco at $3.15/gallon. The New York Times – also known as the newspaper that lauded Bay Area Writer “William Stegner” – is generally unaware of the existence of any of California outside San Francisco and Los Angeles. There are towns within an hour’s drive of San Francisco where the gasoline is routinely forty cents more per gallon than it is in SF. And see my comment about $3.30/gallon gasoline in the Mojave, above. All that said, gasoline is available right this second in SF at between 2.69 and 2.79. I paid 2.69 this morning.
Wow…having to do actual arithmetic is a bit daunting for this liberal arts major…however, let me give it a try. (Well, actually, let me look up various calculators on the web…) I believe there are about 3.8 liters to the gallon. That works out to about $3.72 per gallon. However, since the poster is in Canada (according to the URL attached to his or her name), I think the conversion works out to about US$3.10 or so per gallon. I’ve probably screwed up the calculations, but that’s my guess. Lauren: Thanks for the info…I guess your son is a bit too young to get a job and help Mom with the gasoline bills, huh? 😉 BTW, I like the redesign of the site.
I’ve no idea what gas costs here in NYC: I walk, bike, or take the subway when I want to go somewhere. I’m pretty sure it’s over $2.50, which makes me chuckle every time I pass an SUV stuck in traffic or behind construction that my bike can maneuver through with ease. I have sympathy for people who live in rural areas or, almost worse, no-option southern cities, but almost no one needs to drive in NYC. Therefore, I smile rather than curse when gas prices rise.
We have a Prius hybrid. It’s now costing us about $30 to fill our tank if we can get it all the way full, which we rarely can. It usually hovers around giving us 8 gallons instead which means it costs about $20 to fill our tank. We drove from Chicago to Columbus, Ohio on one tank of gas each way. Our total gas outlay came to about $40 for the trip. We averaged about 50 mpg on each tank and we were enjoying the 70mph speed limit in Indiana. Before, when we had a VW Golf, it cost about $40 to make the trip, and that’s when gas was less than half as much as it is now. My youngest brother has a beater of a car that’s about a 25-year-old Lincoln. It costs him almost $50 to fill his tank and he gets it to last him about a week so he can get to work. Since he makes about $7 an hour, that’s a pretty significant chunk of his change. If I could afford to buy him a newer more fuel-efficient car I would. (I’m considering starting to play the lottery for just this reason.) And while it was fun to laugh at the Hummer driver stuck in traffic beside us this weekend, it’s not funny at all to think of the folks who would have a more fuel-efficient car if they could.
Fuel efficient cars aren’t that expensive, though – I bought my old Geo Metro for $750 and got 40 mpg, even with one cylinder starting to lose its compression. There are tons of these little buggers on the market for under $1,000; they don’t last forever but they’re no less reliable than any other beater car.