How expensive is gasoline where you are?

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So on my way home this evening I just paid $2.09 for a gallon of regular unleaded gas (this is in Southern California). I'm pretty sure this is the most expensive gasoline I've purchased since Alice Springs, Australia during the Gulf War I build up.

So how expensive is it where you are?

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Friday, 28 February 2003 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm told (because i don't drive myself) 75 pence a litre, london

5ish litres to a gallon, 1.5 dollars to the pound = $5.62 per gallon

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 28 February 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

it's at about $1.50 in Athens, though you can find it for $1.40, $1.35 in Atlanta (and it's fluctuating wildly, so maybe it's gone back down). Average over past month: $1.40-$1.50; past three months $1.20-$1.40. Venezuela's pumping again so it should drop or stabilize at least, but there is the war, which may not have much actual affect on oil supply but will supply an excuse to jack the prices up which will be jumped on. Post-war, it'll fall through the floor, back to less than a dollar per gallon, blood fer oil, blood fer oil, LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 28 February 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

75p a litre last time I filled up 3.52litres to a US gallon £2.64/US gal at current exchange that's $4.16/US gal.

The Mail's most used headline came out again today: "Petrol to rise by 10p a litre", (this is the worst thing that can happen in daily mail land, even worse than having an asylum seekers' reception centre).

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 February 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Super's about €1.13 a litre here, you crybabies.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 28 February 2003 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

um, this http://www.horizons.bc.ca/ice/conversion.pdf gives it as 3.8 litres per gallon rather than 5 (are they different?) which works out more like $4.3/gallon

ah. ed got there first. oh well.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 28 February 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

US pint 440ml so Gal 3.52 litres.
UK pint 565ml so Gal 4.53 litres

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 February 2003 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

76.9 cents-81.9 cents/liter

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

$1.65 in Worcester on average.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Around $1.90 per gallon here in Brooklyn. As cheap as $1.75, though, if you go to the secret cabbie place in Bed-Stuy that surely cuts the gas with sewage or laxative or something.

I did hear tell of $5.50 gas in Montana.

― Benjamin, Friday, 28 February 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

$1.88 for premium in Chicago

― No One (SiggyBaby), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

C$0.74/l in Winnipeg (US$1.88/gallon).

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

That's for regular.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 28 February 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

$1.70-1.85 per gallon of regular unleaded in the Washington area. (But the recent snowfalls have got to have affected gasoline delivery.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 28 February 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Surprised it's not more expensive in Chicago, it usually has the highest gas prices in the country (aside from Hawaii).

So glad I sold my car.

― hstencil, Friday, 28 February 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw a station on Congress last week that had it at $2.25 a gallon.

― No One (SiggyBaby), Friday, 28 February 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Average in Toronto is about 80 cents = US$0.60 ish

― Minky Starshine (Minky Starshine), Friday, 28 February 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

$1.61 / gallon for regular unleaded over herre; $1.79 for the "good" stuff. Worse yet, the prices in Massachusetts (which, as far back as I can remember, have been lower compared to CT) are THE SAME. This might be / probably is a Mass Pike thing, though.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 February 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember back in 1998 when the good stuff was 99 cents a gallon in Indiana.

― hstencil, Friday, 28 February 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

99 cents a gallon in Indiana

If you crossed through the Holland Tunnel in December of 2001, the cheap stuff was 93 cents a gallon.

More blood for oil! Where's my bayonet.

― Benjamin, Friday, 28 February 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Average in Toronto is about 80 cents = US$0.60 ish

No shit?!? The reasons to move to Canada just keep piling up.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 28 February 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops, that's $0.60 a LITER! Multiply by four then subtract a little for price per gallon figure.

I remember when gas was $0.99US a gallon in Olympia, WA this past December!

Average in Washington state is around $1.70 or so, I'm told. Which is around the same as it is in Canada now. (Typically, Canadian prices are twice as much as U.S. prices)

Given inflation over the years, gas has generally been cheaper in the U.S. moreso than any other time in history. It takes an extra $5 to fill a tank now. So? Either get one less appetizer the next time you go out, and don't use your car, if it's not a big deal.

I'm more worried about the trend that U.S. recessions occur after almost every gas price spike. Given the state of the economy here now, I don't even want to imagine.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 28 February 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

(Obviously, I don't mean to underscore the effect this has on people who travel by car or truck as part of their job and expenses)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 28 February 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

(shit, I'm just bad with misused negatives today.. underscore = underestimate... not a big deal = a big deal... sigh)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 28 February 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

gas should be more expensive in the U.S. anyway.

― hstencil, Friday, 28 February 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

yesterday was the first time I ever put $20 of gas into a car I own...I be rollin' in a Civic nowadays

― oops (Oops), Friday, 28 February 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Just paid $1.699/gal for regular (87 octane) in Akron, OH.

― Jeff Wright, Friday, 28 February 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i got all the USA beat... $2.39 today for regular unleaded... shell on divis. and fell

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 February 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

You've got a car?

― hstencil, Friday, 28 February 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

not really (i gave it to my ex) but i walk by a gas station. i'll probably fill it up today (it'll be the dolphin mobile tonight).

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 February 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

not expensive enuf to justify murdering heaps of iraqis so yanks can gets their grubby meat hooks onto oil reserves. try walking, i say

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

about $1.50 last time i looked. (but dude, i can't walk living here, there's NOTHING FOR MILES. well, okay, there's a grocery store a mile or so away. carpooling is the closest answer.)

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

gas should be more expensive in the U.S. anyway.

A good point. But so much U.S. business and culture (outside of NYC and similar large cities) has taken advantage of cheap gasoline. I keep getting work assignments at large suburban corporate offices that were built in areas that aren't accessible by Metrorail. Inexpensive gasoline fertilized sprawl, and for me at least the employment has followed out to these remote locations. (I would prefer to take a job in DC or a Metrorail-accessible, close-in suburb, but if the work's not there...)

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 2 March 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

It was $1.69 earlier today - and I live at the end of Orlando with the cheaper gas prices. As a warning: NEVER purchase gasoline on the Disney property - gouging, plain and simple - it was over $3.00 a gallon two weeks ago.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 3 March 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

eighteen years pass...

Do not fill plastic bags with gasoline.
— US Consumer Product Safety Commission (@USCPSC) May 12, 2021

― eisimpleir (crüt), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 21:06 (four years ago)

Americans remain undefeated at turning a potentially minor inconvenience into a crisis through pointless hoarding.

The stupidity has begun pic.twitter.com/VwYSVCHNbr
— Bryan 🇺🇸 (@swimmerbr78) May 11, 2021

To be fair, the viral picture of clear trash bags of gas in a trunk was debunked as being stolen gas from Mexico in 2019.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 21:10 (four years ago)

gas should be more expensive in the U.S. anyway

yes, but from a carbon tax, not as inflated profits for oil companies

― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:01 (four years ago)

Am I overly conspiracy-minded if I think Putin directed this cyber attack as a way to weaken the current administration politically via rising gas prices? What about if I wonder whether someone in the GOP with connections to Russia may have encouraged it? Is that a bridge too far?

― epistantophus, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 22:09 (four years ago)

i think that's a bridge too far.

― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 13 May 2021 01:02 (four years ago)

I know.

― epistantophus, Thursday, 13 May 2021 01:58 (four years ago)

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