# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/101 "2022-04-01T14:24:09Z")
[Nostalgia moment] Picture it, 1970, I had just graduated from college and my roommate’s dad had given us a big ol’ Chevy to drive. It had a 20-gallon tank. Gas (other old Dopers will verify this) was $0.20/gallon. It cost $4.00 ( **FOUR DOLLARS!** ) to fill up that car. 😭 And we usually only put in a dollar’s worth at a time because we couldn’t afford the $4.00 all at once. Our grocery budget was $10.00 per week and we ate like princesses. Of course, minimum wage was $1.45 and the median annual income in the US was about $3,000. 🎵 _“And children were working in coal mines and life was a beautiful thing…”_ 🎶 From _Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!_ [/Nostalgia moment] ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/102 "2022-04-01T16:02:34Z")
I filled up at a Buc-ee’s about 15 miles from home yesterday for $3.59/gal. The stations near me are now in the $3.69-$3.79 range. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/103 "2022-04-01T16:21:23Z")
Gas buddy says the cheapest gas in Little Rock is $3.59. Its ten miles from my house. Gas station near me 3.89 ---
**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:** [April 1, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/104 "2022-04-01T17:07:17Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > Local prices are drifting slowly below $4.00/gal. > > One week ago, there were only a handful of stations at $3.99, and not a penny lower. Over the past few days, all the “cheap gas” places have dropped below $3.99 – $3.94 is the lowest I’ve seen in the last 24 hours. > > The “less cheap” places are still clustered around $4.09 - $4.19/gal, but that won’t last too long . This changed fast: I gave my daughter a ride home from her in-town commuter college, and so passed by a bunch of stations I wouldn’t ordinarily see. Passed a $3.89/gal place, and took a mental note. Five minutes from there, saw a $3.69/gal place – stopped and filled up right then and there. Normally, I’d have saved a fill-up for the weekend. Gasbuddy shows some places within a 20-minute drive dipping below $3.60/gal. A major move today apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/105 "2022-04-01T17:24:03Z")
I just checked GasBuddy. Prices have dropped slightly, but not dramatically - e.g. 4.15 or so a gallon, where they were 4.29 a week or so back. We’re going on a long driving trip tomorrow; I’m glad we didn’t top the car off earlier this week. We drive it so little, that we have 3/4 of a tank, more than enough to get us out of DC-area gas prices and into southern VA, where it’s typically been 20 cents or more per gallon cheaper. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/106 "2022-04-01T17:40:49Z")
$4.49 in suburban Chicago this morning. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/107 "2022-04-01T22:59:22Z")
3.88 a week ago, 3.68 today Brian ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/108 "2022-04-01T23:59:12Z")
Replying to my earlier post I paid $4.29 a gallon Today. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/109 "2022-04-02T09:10:32Z")
Everybody Wants to Rule the World, shot in Las Vegas, 1984: [https://flic.kr/p/2nc2x5E](https://flic.kr/p/2nc2x5E) $3.98/gallon equivalent. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/110 "2022-04-02T17:36:16Z")
Spent part of last week in Central/South TX. Diesel was over $5.00/gallon at every station I remember. I skipped fueling while there and waited until returning to the DFW area - where it’s fallen to $4.89 locally. Still hurt, as I’d used most of the aux tanks in all the traveling and had to buy 75 gallons to fill back up. Paying that much hurts, but I saved 8 whole dollars by waiting. Sigh. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/111 "2022-04-05T15:15:37Z")
$3.999/gallon at the Pilot station and the Lummi station this morning. I used my Pilot rewards card (haven’t been there in years) and got fuel for $3.969/gallon. So I saved 23 cents on the tankful. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/112 "2022-04-13T21:51:04Z")
Drove to Florida and back to Virginia on I-95 last week and saw gas around $4.00/gallon the whole trip. As low as $3.80-ish, and as high as $4.60+ in tourist areas. Diesel was over $5.00/gallon everywhere. Why would diesel be 25% more expensive than gasoline??!!! ---
**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:** [April 13, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/113 "2022-04-13T22:14:38Z")
I refuelled yesterday morning for $4.099 at the cheap place. On the way home in the afternoon I saw that it was down to $3.999. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/114 "2022-04-13T22:16:03Z")
Got gas at Costco yesterday in Middle TN for $3.55. StG ---
**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:** [April 13, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/115 "2022-04-13T22:19:24Z")
West suburban Chicago: regular unleaded went to around $4.55 in the opening days of the war in Ukraine, and has pretty much stayed there since. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/116 "2022-04-13T22:21:28Z")
No more $4.00+/gal places in the local area. The price-gouging places are now down to $3.99/gal. $3.80-something prices are the most common, with prices in the in the $3.70s not hard to find. In the very near vicinity, $3.69/gal is still the price to beat. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/117 "2022-04-13T22:24:54Z")
GasBuddy is reporting a FEW stations DOWN below $5/gal in Sacramento, CA. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/118 "2022-04-14T14:45:17Z")
Around here (NE Dallas), gas prices were around $3.65 per gallon for regular a couple of days ago. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/119 "2022-05-19T22:43:50Z")
Gas has jumped to about $4.50 here in San Antonio. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568/120 "2022-05-19T23:25:29Z")
I refuelled Tuesday at the Lummi’s station. It was $4.899. I drove past the sign yesterday and it was $4.859. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-gas-prices-in-your-area/960568.md?page=7)