Gas Prices!!!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(huskers @ Aug 21 2006, 01:38 PM) [snapback]306841[/snapback]</div>

It's available for $2.79 several places here in Austin (though most are more). I saw a station in a small town in the Hill Country yesterday that was selling it for $2.69 - and they actually had fuel!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(huskers @ Aug 21 2006, 01:38 PM) [snapback]306841[/snapback]</div>

Here's a link to a map of current gasoline prices:

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

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(huskers @ Aug 21 2006, 11:38 AM) [snapback]306841[/snapback]</div>

Wow, I'd love to only have to pay $2.78 for gas. There are a few stations with gas under $3 around here, but not many.

 

$2.68 in Bristol, TN/VA today. That's with a NASCAR race in town this coming Saturday.

 

$3.08 here yesterday, a bit higher across the border in Washington due to taxes. For some reason it doesn't bother me a bit. I wouldn't mind seeing another dollar or two per gallon. I think then we would see some meaningful conservation.

 

$3.07 in San Diego.

We'll never see $2.xx again.

 

The cheapest I've seen in Southern CT is around $3.10 these days. I was just in southeastern MA, though, and it was $2.90.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rfred @ Aug 21 2006, 01:50 PM) [snapback]306849[/snapback]</div>

That's pretty accurate. Here on the north suburbs of Chicago it's about $3.10-3.20, altho the station I pass everyday still has it at 3.25.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tumbleweed @ Aug 21 2006, 09:01 AM) [snapback]306861[/snapback]</div>

It was $3.10 at Costco in Hawaii yesterday. It hovers around #3.09, $3.10, #3.11 not much change. I usually drive to Costco for gas. Seems to be the cheapest on the island although Lex Brodie's sometimes has $2.99 Fridays but then the gas line goes around the block wrecking havoc on the traffic in that area.
Lucky we drive a Prius!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hamachi @ Aug 21 2006, 10:13 AM) [snapback]306926[/snapback]</div>

 

We're right on the cusp of $3.00 here in CO. Depending on where you are the price seems to be between about $2.90 and $3.00 for regular (85 octane in our case).

 

I found two past polls to be interesting.

When asked if they would consider buying a more fuel efficient car if gas doubles. 51% said yes and 15% said they already had.

What if gas doubles?

When asked if they plan on buying a more fuel efficient car due to higher gas prices 31% said yes and 26% said they were considering it.

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And....What would make you consider buying a hybrid car:

Similar price and features to a gas powered car. 42%
Costly gas prices. 29%
Tax breaks. 7%
Cleaner emissions. 3%
I wouldn't buy a hybrid. 16%

I think getting the prices down so a hybrid is close to the same as an ICE is the way to market. I think people would buy a hybrid if the price were higher but they also got more high end features. The tax breaks have done their jobs (but I'd still like them to continue) but it's the price of gas that is going to drive people to hybrids.

Hybrid car

 

$2.97 at Arco (cash or debit cards only~$0.45 fee added to transaction when using debit card); $3.07 at Chevron in Huntington Beach (Orange County), CA.

 

Wow, that map makes me wonder what it would look like to check correlation between gas prices and voting trends, like the infamous red-blue-purple state maps. Looks like a lot of the south has it pretty good by comparison.

Looks more like it's just easiest to get gas near the center of the nation's distribution infrastructure, but there *may* be some correlation

 

$3.11 here in upstate NY

 

I just got gas today in the Chicago area for $3.26.

 

$3.05 past Friday in Cypress, CA (Chevron) and probably $3.03 at the lowest one I know of.

 

That's far from average.

Here in my small California Central Coast town, regular gas is $3.63 a gallon. Twenty miles south in a larger town, it's about $3.35.

Jennifer, with Arco adding 45c to each tankful, it's hard to justify buying there. Since we're usually putting in under ten gallons at a time, Arco's price would have to be more than 5c cheaper than the competition.

In my case, I often put in 3-6 gallons, which makes Arco out of the question.

 

$2.95/gal around here at the cheap places.

 

Gas is $2.6X here in middle GA for the last 4-5 days. I knew buying my Prius would run prices down...but, hey, it was a relatively small price to pay!