# U.S. Dopers: What's the price of gas where you are? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 11, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414 "2007-07-11T20:16:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/41 "2007-07-12T16:42:14Z")
Few days ago, husband bought $20 worth at 2.99 a gallon. This was west of the city (Lake in the Hills, I believe). Today, it's jumped .40 a gallon due to a problem in a refinery in Whiting, Indiana. If anyone is interested, [here’s an article](http://www.suntimes.com/business/465469,CST-NWS-gas12.article) in the Chicago Sun Times about it. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/42 "2007-07-12T17:04:04Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] In northern VA, around $2.95/gal. In southern VA, about $2.65-75/gallon. Veeeery different markets here… [/QUOTE] Where at in southern, the western side of the state? 'Cause her in the southeastern part it’s $285 -$2.97 this week between home and work. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/43 "2007-07-12T17:13:15Z")
$2.64 in South Jersey. And, by law, they have to pump it for me. (Thanks to the near-by refineries in Philly and the sucky part of North Jersey that gives this jewel of a state a bad name. Oh, and some of the lowest gas taxes in the nation). ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/44 "2007-07-12T17:20:19Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] $3.299 Do you foreigners get charged to three decimal places, which is so stupid! [/QUOTE] Well, we tend to buy it by the litre, which is a smaller unit to start with. So we only have one decimal place when the price is in cents–105.4–but three before the decimal point, so it adds up to four significant figures anyways. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/45 "2007-07-12T17:28:15Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Well, we tend to buy it by the litre, which is a smaller unit to start with. So we only have one decimal place when the price is in cents–105.4–but three before the decimal point, so it adds up to four significant figures anyways. [/QUOTE] And it was only within the past year that the price reliably passed the dollar mark per litre anyways. Before the price was universally in cents per litre, and because of the way the signs are set up, it was easier to just add another figure for hundreds of cents rather than do that and shift the decimal point to indicate dollars. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/46 "2007-07-12T17:32:21Z")
I was stuck paying $3.84 for regular in Beverly Hills yesterday. But that isn’t usual. Most plces near my home it is around $3.17 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/47 "2007-07-12T17:55:32Z")
$3.07 this morning in rural SE Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/48 "2007-07-12T18:06:13Z")
At the trucker gas station outside town where it’s always cheaper, gas is $2.81, but in town it ranges up to $2.99. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/49 "2007-07-12T18:29:34Z")
Converting the various units, we’d be at about $4 US per US gallon at the moment. Which ain’t bad - BTW. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/50 "2007-07-12T20:41:38Z")
Back to $3.20 here. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/51 "2007-07-12T21:20:12Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] Least expensive in the last few days $2.76 at Costco; generally around $2.79 lately. Baltimore and surrounding area, Maryland. [/QUOTE] And today I went out, it was $2.85 - $3.01. WTF. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/52 "2007-07-13T02:27:46Z")
In southwest Oklahoma, gas jumped from 2.97 to 3.17 today. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/53 "2007-07-13T02:36:08Z")
The cheap station was $2.89 today, while others were at $2.96. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/54 "2007-07-13T02:36:55Z")
The thing about the three decimal places is you can only pay by $.01 increments. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/55 "2007-07-13T18:21:32Z")
[QUOTE=ASAKMOTSD] Yeah - prices in Detroit did that too. Interesting that the news article on that refinery originally said that Michigan was not serviced by that refinery & all of a sudden it is responsible for price increases. Hmmmm… :dubious: [/QUOTE] They said this one closing would jack up prices in the region, but _Detroit_?? Any excuse in a storm, I guess. Though, if I recall, it _is_ a rather large facility (a lot of refineries in Kansas have been closed down the past several years). In any case, it was danged stupid of them to put the thing next to a river. ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/56 "2007-07-14T04:05:34Z")
In the Las Vegas area, on my end of town, it seems to be running from about $2.959 to $3.079 the last few days. I filled up Sunday night at $2.979. ---
**Author:** ![SiouxChief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@SiouxChief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiouxChief)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414/57 "2007-07-14T04:16:31Z")
The last week or so it’s been running at about $2.86 / gallon around here (except for a few places about 30 minutes west of me that had it for $2.67). As of today, the stations closest to me are charging $3.12 / gallon. (Fortunately the station by my parent’s house is always slow to change their prices and still had it at $2.86 about 2 hours ago…so I just topped off my tank.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-dopers-whats-the-price-of-gas-where-you-are/411414.md?page=2)