# I saw gas for $1.99 today! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 26, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565 "2008-11-26T15:58:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/1 "2008-11-26T15:58:47Z")
I know gas prices have been droping for a little while, but when I saw gas for less than $2 a gallon this morning my jaw hit the floor. I can fill up my tank for $20 again, it’s a freakin thanksgiving miracle! 😃 The pessimist in me is saying that this is just another indicator that the worlds economy is going down the tubs so fast that it is leaving a sonic boom in it’s wake, but right now I am still groovin’ on $2 gas so I can’t care to much. I never thought that I could get so excited by looking at a simple price sign. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/2 "2008-11-26T16:00:25Z")
Here in the Texas panhandle, you can find gas for as little as $1.51. I’m loving it, because spending $100+ on gas every week was seriously impacting our finances. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/3 "2008-11-26T16:02:51Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Here in the Texas panhandle, you can find gas for as little as $1.51. Really? Wow. I saw it at $1.97 in a couple of places about a week ago. Funnily enough, just blocks away I saw it at $2.27. I wonder how much business those folks did. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/4 "2008-11-26T16:05:59Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Here in the Texas panhandle, you can find gas for as little as $1.51. I’m loving it, because spending $100+ on gas every week was seriously impacting our finances. You just totally killed my high, thanks. 😛 Seriously though, that is impressive. It wasn’t that long ago that gas hit $2 for the first time and people started to go nuts, but after a summer of $4+ gas, this really is sweet. I had heard that Buffalo has some of the cheepest gas in the country right now, anyone up that way want to say how much you are paying for a gallon up that way? Less than Texas? ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/5 "2008-11-26T16:06:10Z")
$1.61 on the way to work this morning, \*and _they pump it for you_. Boo-yah! \*New Jersey. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/6 "2008-11-26T16:06:52Z")
I got 10 cars and am waiting for “rock bottom”, then I’m gonna fill em all up! My own little, rolling storage tanks. I am so easily amused. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/7 "2008-11-26T16:14:47Z")
It was $1.80 this morning around here and according to the BIL about $1.60 in central Il. The pessimist in me says that we’re gonna take a roaring screwing once the markets come back. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/8 "2008-11-26T16:16:41Z")
I filled up at $1.78.9 at a BP station outside of Annapolis last weekend. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/9 "2008-11-26T16:19:49Z")
It’s been holding at $1.69 here for about a week. We have a local gas station/grocery store chain where you can get money off gas (per gallon) as you accumulate points on your grocery store card. Right now the card I share with my folks has $1.20 off per gallon. So I’m sending dad up to the gas station tonight with his car and his 2 5-gallon gas containers to fill up for $.49/gal 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/10 "2008-11-26T16:20:20Z")
According to [GasPriceWatch](http://www.gaspricewatch.com/new/default_V3.asp), the lowest right now is $1.33 in St Loius MO. I didn’t look this morning, but we’re in the neighborhood of $1.50. ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/11 "2008-11-26T16:24:13Z")
It’s amazing isn’t it!.. I can actually get half a tank for $20 bucks now. (Hawaii) I didn’t even want to drive when the gas was at $4.40. Let’s just hope it stays this way… or better yet, goes lower 🙂 I wonder what the main influence of these gas prices dropping is. It’s been pretty consistent. (Not an economics major) ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/12 "2008-11-26T16:24:49Z")
Should be adjusted for inflation to the, what? Early 2003 prices? I was working at a gas station back then and I think that the prices were high at 1.70 or something by the time I left. Again, this is 2003 dollars. They have weird _back to the fifties_ days at McDonalds and such here and there where they sell the meal for like 30 cents… as a promotional tool. Think about it with that type of thing in mind. (not that they’re doing it for promotional means, but rather that inflation DOES exist… Always bothers me when someone older says "When I was your age gas was 20 cents a gallon!! Yeah… But you only made 40 cents an hour.) ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/13 "2008-11-26T16:27:32Z")
It’s been under $2 here for several weeks. Yesterday when I drove by the gas station it was $1.67. ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/14 "2008-11-26T16:31:06Z")
I paid $1.96 a few days ago. It felt good to fill up the tank for $24.00. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/15 "2008-11-26T16:36:34Z")
I filled up at $1.71 the other day, and have seen it as low as $1.65, although I’m sure that station is even lower now (it’s a bit off my normal beaten path). Since it recently took over $40 to fill the tank, it was lovely to fill it for $22. And it was on fumes. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/16 "2008-11-26T16:38:43Z")
1.95 across from my house this week. I filled up our car at Arco (cash only, they don’t take credit cards. I didn’t know that before), paid $25 and got back $4 in change when I was done. A lot better then the $45-50 it was running very recently. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/17 "2008-11-26T16:39:24Z")
It’s been $1.87 here for about a week and a half. A few miles from here it’s as low as $1.79. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/18 "2008-11-26T16:42:34Z")
I filled up my Prius on Saturday for $15.82. But I lost a bit of the smug since it was so cheap. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/19 "2008-11-26T16:45:58Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > According to [GasPriceWatch](http://www.gaspricewatch.com/new/default_V3.asp), the lowest right now is $1.33 in St Loius MO. Which has to be getting near an all-time low (based on “constant dollars”). This [graph](http://zfacts.com/p/35.html) seems to say that the early 1970s price translates to around $1.80 today. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565/20 "2008-11-26T16:47:37Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > Which has to be getting near an all-time low (based on “constant dollars”). > > This [graph](http://zfacts.com/p/35.html) seems to say that the early 1970s price translates to around $1.80 today. _THANK YOU!_ Had no idea there was an accurate price adjuster that I could just quickly e-mail to people in shock about such things. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-gas-for-1-99-today/474565.md?page=2)