# Dammit! Lost the gas price sweepstakes again! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 9, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-lost-the-gas-price-sweepstakes-again/356144 "2006-05-09T23:28:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-lost-the-gas-price-sweepstakes-again/356144/1 "2006-05-09T23:28:49Z")
It never fails. Every time I fill up, the price of gas drops later the same day. If I think about filling up but decide not to, the price goes up. I was getting pretty near fumes today but I was resisting buying gas. The price had been steady at $2.90 a gallon for over a week and I kept expecting it to go down. Finally this morning I couldn’t wait any longer because my E-light was flashing pretty bad, so before work I stop in at the gas station up the street from my place and fill up. On the way home, I see the price has dropped to $2.85/gal. Five cent drop in the space of nine hours. Not like I would’ve saved some huge amount of money on the fillup, less than a dollar, but dammit! I’m still pissed. Just once I’d like to be on the winning side of a price change. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-lost-the-gas-price-sweepstakes-again/356144/2 "2006-05-10T00:21:16Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > On the way home, I see the price has dropped to $2.85/gal. Five cent drop in the space of nine hours. Where the hell did you find $2.85 gas??? :eek: Here in L.A., I filled up last week @ $3.25/gal, and that was DIRT cheap. (The week before, it was $3.05) ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-lost-the-gas-price-sweepstakes-again/356144/3 "2006-05-10T00:33:16Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > Here in L.A., I filled up last week @ $3.25/gal, and that was DIRT cheap. I’d be happy to find $3.25/gal here in the Bay Area, too. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-lost-the-gas-price-sweepstakes-again/356144/4 "2006-05-10T00:42:35Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > Where the hell did you find $2.85 gas??? :eek: > > Here in L.A., I filled up last week @ $3.25/gal, and that was DIRT cheap. (The week before, it was $3.05) Yes, you are definitley in the cheap part of L.A. $3.39/gal here, and downtown it’s $3.68/gal ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-lost-the-gas-price-sweepstakes-again/356144/5 "2006-05-10T00:57:15Z")
They’re dropping a bit here. I filled up for $2.81 this afternoon. However, my darling Honda Civic only got 30 miles to the gallon this tank. I shall have to keep an eye on that… ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-lost-the-gas-price-sweepstakes-again/356144/6 "2006-05-10T01:04:23Z")
If this really works then we need to start a fund to keep **Otto** perpetually filling his tank. Pretty soon the price of gasoline will be down to pre 2000 prices. And I’d snarl at **Ivylass** if I didn’t get better mileage. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-lost-the-gas-price-sweepstakes-again/356144/7 "2006-05-10T06:28:41Z")
Happened to me yesterday. Driving back from a Dr’s app’t in an unfamiliar area of town I saw a station at $3.09, a good dime less than most places (and two dimes less than some). After I put 15 gallons in my wife’s SUV, I pulled out of the station only to see that _next door_ was another station selling at $3.03! Fuck! –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-lost-the-gas-price-sweepstakes-again/356144/8 "2006-05-10T14:17:50Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > Where the hell did you find $2.85 gas??? I think it has to do with being close to where the corn is. As I understand it, it’s cheaper to ship the gasoline to where the ethanol is and blend it there than it is to ship the ethanol to where the gasoline is. When I visit my parents in Iowa the gas is always like a dime cheaper than Wisconsin.