# How are gas prices in your area?

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/821 "2026-09-27T08:44:53Z")

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It’s come down a little. $3.50 - West Central Ohio.

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/822 "2026-09-29T11:53:50Z")

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Huh, _really_? Even today 2 days later [Gasbuddy insists that the lowest Ohio prices](https://www.gasbuddy.com/gasprices/ohio) are in the high $3.70’s. Yesterday I topped off at a local Meijer’s for $3.86 1/2 for premium, once all my discounts (-$1.17 1/2) were taken into account. If you actually were able to find a station that cheap more power to ya–and yes the reports may have been the dire work of the stay-at-home reporters (who in the case of this particular station had the reported prices all over the map and not all that close to the actual ones).

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/823 "2026-09-29T20:02:40Z")

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> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> The two stations in my neighborhood have been at $5.29 and $5.19 since Sunday morning. The lowest in the area is $4.99.

A week later, $4.99 is what I’ve seen across the board in suburban Cook County the last few days. That means that the stations close to me came down a bit, but overall, it’s still stupidly high.

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**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/824 "2026-09-30T04:19:28Z")

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Hate to tell you this, but you’re fortunate. Between Sacramento and Fremont, CA, today, sightings of prices for gasoline below $6/gallon were rather rare, and I saw at least one crowding $7/gallon. Diesel is headed toward $9/gallon.

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**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/825 "2026-10-01T13:36:10Z")

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So have ours in Dallas - they’re sitting around $3.85-ish now, down from around $3.99 a week or two ago. Diesel is the same- around 5.85 down from 5.99.

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