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Gasoline Price Per Gallon In Your Area, Right Now

Gasoline shortages, price hikes coming to East Coast after pipeline leak - Sep. 16, 2016

A leak has caused the closure of a crucial pipeline that carries gasoline to the eastern United States, a disruption that threatens to drive up prices and leave service stations without fuel to sell.

A section of the Colonial Pipeline, which runs from Houston to New York, has been closed since Sept. 9 after a spill of roughly 6,000 barrels of gasoline was discovered in rural Shelby County, Ala.

The major pipeline, one pipe of which has been severed, provides gasoline for an estimated 50 million people on the East Coast each day, according to company estimates.
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Well balls. I just paid $1.96 per gallon yesterday.

Wonder how high it's gonna go? Wonder if we'll actually see gas stations without any gas at all?

Seems highly unlikely near me as there's refineries in Philly, and Delaware City.

Dammit though.....just dammit....:doh
 
$1.87 here in Dallas. And I do not like it. It is cutting into my royalty checks!
 
Your Star said:
Yeah, 90% of the gas stations around me don't have any gas. And the ones that do, it's at like, $2.39 a gallon. It's kinda scary.
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I use to work for Kodak and they paid me $00.35 per mile. When gas hit $3.00 per gallon it was not worth it any more. I was pretty much paying them to work at that point.
 
Your Star said:
Yeah, 90% of the gas stations around me don't have any gas. And the ones that do, it's at like, $2.39 a gallon. It's kinda scary.
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Wow. That's crazy.

Gas here is $2.21 and holding at the moment. I've not seen any stations that don't have gas yet.
 
Found bargain gas at $2.41 yesterday, and filled both vehicles before they could raise the price. Why am I reading complaints about $2.39 and less? Come to California, land of cheap gas and cheaper real estate!
 
I think the Chevron station I pass in the morning is at $1.92 for CC, and like $1.81 for cash.
 
I'm old enough to remember a certain president mocking the idea that we could ever get back to $2 gas...


Around here some stations are zeroed out, and others are generally at about $2.19. I have a road trip to take this weekend, and am a little worried about availability.
 
UPDATE | Company restarts gasoline pipeline after leak in Alabama

ATLANTA (AP) -- Colonial Pipeline has restarted the gasoline pipeline in Alabama that was shut down after a major leak, which caused shortages and surging fuel prices across the South.

Company officials say in a statement that the pipeline reopened Wednesday evening. The pipeline leak was discovered Sept. 9 near Helena, Alabama, when state workers noticed a strong gasoline odor and sheen on a man-made retention pond.
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Now...how long before prices return to pre-leak level?
 
Dragonfly said:
What you got where you are?


In northern Delaware I've seen $2.97 per gallon.
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I pay about $5.5 here. My brother in law said he pay about 7, where he is in Germany.
 
joG said:
I pay about $5.5 here. My brother in law said he pay about 7, where he is in Germany.
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minnie616 said:
It is about $1.99 here is SW Florida too.

As long as it stays around $2.50 or less through 2016 I will be very happy.

A year ago regular was about $2.55 a gallon.

December 2013 it was just over $3.20 a gallon.
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Gas prices are an average of $2.42 per gallon currently but may fall about 50 percent according to the following article I just read.

From
Here's How Gas Prices Could Drop by 50% Very Soon

Gas prices just reached a new high for 2017. AAA reported that prices at the pump have inched up every day over the course of three weeks, reaching an average of $2.42 per gallon nationally as of Friday. That’s up 13¢ from a month ago, and up 31¢ compared to 12 months ago.


Still, in the grand scheme, American gas prices are quite cheap today, as anyone driving during the $3.50+ days of 2013 and 2014 can attest. And prices could very well become even cheaper in the near future.
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Here's How Gas Prices Could Drop by 50% Very Soon
 
minnie616 said:
Gas prices are an average of $2.42 per gallon currently but may fall about 50 percent according to the following article I just read.

From
Here's How Gas Prices Could Drop by 50% Very Soon



Here's How Gas Prices Could Drop by 50% Very Soon
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Except in California. Here, the state just passed a 12 cent increase in the gas tax in order to fix the roads, or at least that's what they say it's for. Roads are terrible, and need fixing, but the money goes into the black hole known as the "general fund." How it will actually be used is anyone's guess.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Except in California. Here, the state just passed a 12 cent increase in the gas tax in order to fix the roads, or at least that's what they say it's for. Roads are terrible, and need fixing, but the money goes into the black hole known as the "general fund." How it will actually be used is anyone's guess.
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I hear you.

Michigan also increased it's gas tax starting January the 1st at 7 more cents a gallon.

We were already paying a gas tax 19 cents a gallon.

But , still if gas prices decrease over a dollar a gallon in California and Michigan that's still quite a savings especially compared to the $3.40 or $3.50+ a gallon during 2013 and 2014.

$3.40 here in SE Michigan.
 
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minnie616 said:
I hear you.

Michigan also increased it's gas tax starting January the 1st at 7 more cents a gallon.

We were already paying a gas tax 19 cents a gallon.

But , still if gas prices decrease over a dollar a gallon in California and Michigan that's still quite a savings especially compared to the $3.40 or $3.50+ a gallon during 2013 and 2014.

$3.40 here in SE Michigan.
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It's not going to happen though. Gas prices in California are already the highest in the nation, even before taxes, because we're required to use "special blends" that drive the price through the roof. Screw this idiotic liberal state.
 
Cephus said:
It's not going to happen though. Gas prices in California are already the highest in the nation, even before taxes, because we're required to use "special blends" that drive the price through the roof. Screw this idiotic liberal state.
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I've heard that from many folks. course they are rather ignorant of the real facts. depending on the winter or summer formulations used across the nation California pays 25% more for a gallon. (you must have a very low roof)

What the ill-informed miss is millions of Californians live in natural smog traps where low level pollutants get trapped against the mountains, choking people who live in the bowls.

I remember flying into LA back in the 'good ol' days' of same priced gas, what a smoggy mess!!! :doh

Screw this idiotic rabid right alt fact world... :peace
 
minnie616 said:
I hear you.

Michigan also increased it's gas tax starting January the 1st at 7 more cents a gallon.

We were already paying a gas tax 19 cents a gallon.

But , still if gas prices decrease over a dollar a gallon in California and Michigan that's still quite a savings especially compared to the $3.40 or $3.50+ a gallon during 2013 and 2014.

$3.40 here in SE Michigan.
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Sure, if the price goes up 12 cents due to taxes, but comes down $1 due to market forces, that's net gain. I'll believe that when I see it. I'll also believe the roads being fixed with that 12 cents when I see it.

I remember gas locally hitting $4.50 not so long ago. At least that has come down.
 
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