# How are gas prices in your area? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 6, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568 "2022-03-06T15:56:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/41 "2022-03-08T13:32:59Z")
We’re ranging from $3.92 to $4.19 for regular in my area. Thankfully I don’t fuel up very often. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/42 "2022-03-08T13:41:27Z")
I filled on Sunday at 3.95. Monday, it was 4.19 at the same store, and 4.39 at several other places. I heard on the radio that adjusted for inflation, it’s still cheaper than the peak in 2008. I can’t help wondering how much of the cost is price-gouging by producers… ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/43 "2022-03-08T14:07:54Z")
I filled up yesterday (Southwestern Oregon). $4.51 for regular. On Feb 27, the last time I filled up, same station, it was $4.49 for premium. There’s usually a $0.40 difference between the two, so it’s safe to say its gone up that much in 8 days. Prices vary greatly around here depending on the distance from I-5. That’s one of the more expensive stations but its also the one I have a fuel credit card for. ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/44 "2022-03-08T15:00:53Z")
I saw a headline yesterday (but didn’t read the article) that Napa is the highest in the SF bay area. Just checked- Chevron went up again to $5.70/ gal. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/45 "2022-03-08T15:08:19Z")
I saw $3,899 yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/46 "2022-03-08T15:11:32Z")
I hope that is a typo of a comma for a period?!? ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/47 "2022-03-08T16:17:17Z")
I drove past the “cheapie” gas place on my way to work. Yesterday: $5.79 a gallon. Today: $5.99 a gallon. At those prices, it costs me $12 per day to do a round-trip commute to work. Luckily, Costco’s a buck cheaper per gallon. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/48 "2022-03-08T16:23:27Z")
I went to Sam’s Club yesterday to do some shopping and to also fill up the car. On my trip, I passed a Fleet Farm. Their gas was $3.99 and so was Kwik Trip and Holiday. When I arrived at Sam’s most of the pumps were in use. I was able to slip into the last free spot. I notice Sam’s price was only $3.39. By the time I was done pumping there were cars lined up around the parking lot to get gas. Someone must have Tweeted out the price! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/49 "2022-03-08T16:38:06Z")
Typo. It’s $3.899 US dollars per gallon. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/50 "2022-03-08T16:38:21Z")
Up over four dollars, about to where they maxed in the summer of 2008. I’m not as annoyed by it as I was then. 13 years makes a difference in terms of overall inflation and the reasoning for the spike in oil prices makes a lot more sense to me than it did then. If $5 a gallon gas is the final cost to smack down Putin, I’d consider that cheap. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/51 "2022-03-08T16:52:11Z")
Between $3.69 and $4.09 here between Cleveland & Akron (Ohio). One of our local Sheetz stations remodeled and re-opened mid-February. Gas at that station, and the two stations around it, was hella “cheap” for a few weeks. The last two times I filled up was $2.28 and then $2.79. Fun time is over. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/52 "2022-03-08T18:01:38Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > he last two times I filled up was $2.28 and then $2.79. Fun time is over. We haven’t had those prices around here since… I honestly can’t remember. Probably during the Obama years. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/53 "2022-03-08T18:07:01Z")
Around here – SE Louisiana which has some of the cheapest gasoline in the US – most stations are between $3.85 - $3.99 for the basic 87 octane. No one wants to be the first to go over $4.00, but it has to be coming very soon. Unless the current prices are artificially\*\* inflated and have some wiggle room built into them. \*\* _IOW, the station could right now make a thin profit at, say, $3.75/gal, but went up to $3.95/gal to build up a buffer. Make some money up front for days or weeks, and then stand firm at $3.95/gal and take small losses for a few more days/weeks until prices per barrel drop and stabilize. Something like that._ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/54 "2022-03-08T18:10:33Z")
You know, **bordelond** , your reasoning makes more sense than almost any other I’ve heard while thinking about this situation. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/55 "2022-03-08T22:18:54Z")
Cost me $125 to fill up my car (pictured). Let’s gooooooo, Brandon! [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51926917813_4872e48d78_b.jpg "20220308\_161100") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/51926917813/) ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/56 "2022-03-08T22:59:48Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > Around here – SE Louisiana which has some of the cheapest gasoline in the US – most stations are between $3.85 - $3.99 for the basic 87 octane. No one wants to be the first to go over $4.00, but it has to be coming very soon . I posted too soon. Shortly after posting this, I went on an errand and passed by two stations that were $3.99/gal at 8:00 a.m. today. At ~12:15 p.m., both stations were at $4.19/gal. A twenty cent jump all at once. Despite still having half a tank, I pulled into a station still advertising $3.89/gal on their big sign … the pump displayed instead $3.99/gal. Back in the days of manually changing the sign, I’d have understood. But with all digital signage? I guess the pumps and the signs don’t communicate. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/57 "2022-03-09T00:24:19Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > $4.99 on the central coast of California at almost every station I posted that 2 days ago. Cheapest now is $5.34. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/58 "2022-03-09T00:31:57Z")
$4.19 Maryland, just outside DC. Back when prices were this high back in the late 00s I was still driving the Crown Vic with its 19 gallon tank. $75 fill-ups were not fun. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/59 "2022-03-09T02:27:20Z")
Yesterday, Regular fuel at the Lummi gas station was $4.259, and that’s what it was about 05:30 this morning when I drove by. I saw the sign as I passed on the way home, and it’s up to $4.359. And this is one of the cheaper places. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/60 "2022-03-09T03:02:04Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Here in southern Ontario, it’s reported to be around $1.85/L. I filled up just before a series of price jumps over the past few days – I think it was around $1.60/L at the time. It should last a while as I don’t typically drive very far. Wow. I was in Southern Ontario until Feb 26 and it was at $1.54/L then. I’m in Nassau County NY just outside NYC and loaded gas 2 days ago, $3.99/gallon, at the cheapest place near me according to google maps. That same place is $4.24 today. The cheapest I see right now is $4.19; most places are $4.29 or 4.39 and a few are 4.69. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568.md?page=4)