Gee, it's cheap where you live.Originally Posted by JDG 66
We're paying about $4.07 here in Northern Virginia. The other day, I passed a gas station in Bethesda, Maryland that was charging about $4.45 a gallon. That station is always pricey, however.
I want people to know that peace is possible even in this stupid day and age. Prem Rawat, June 8, 2008
Shell station at Tiny Town Road & 41A, Clarksville, TN:
-Yesterday [27 MAY 2011] at $3.659/gallon. It's been there for several days...
Shell station at Tiny Town Road & 41A, Clarksville, TN:
-Yesterday [5 JUN 2011] at $3.599/gallon.
Same out here. It's way cheap right now, not sure why. I should fill up on the way to the dentist, but it means going out of my way. Maybe on the way back.
How to spot a shill, by John Michael Greer: "What you watch for is (a) a brand new commenter who (b) has nothing to say about the topic under discussion but (c) trots out a smoothly written opinion piece that (d) hits all the standard talking points currently being used by a specific political or corporate interest, while (e) avoiding any other points anyone else has made on that subject."
"If the shoe fits..." The Grey Badger.
Shell station at Tiny Town Road & 41A, Clarksville, TN:
-Yesterday [10 JUN 2011] at $3.519/gallon.
so you never had to pay $4.00 gas this year?
I want people to know that peace is possible even in this stupid day and age. Prem Rawat, June 8, 2008
1) I haven't bought gas this year. If I'm not taking the bus, I bicycle or walk.
2) This is the most expensive I've ever seen it:
...after a hurricane disrupted supplies for about a week.
Tennessee has cheap gas, despite relatively high gas taxes.
$3.59 here in PA @ the cheap places, last I checked, which was Friday.
~Chas'88
"There have always been people who say: "The war will be over someday." I say there's no guarantee the war will ever be over. Naturally a brief intermission is conceivable. Maybe the war needs a breather, a war can even break its neck, so to speak. But the kings and emperors, not to mention the pope, will always come to its help in adversity. ON the whole, I'd say this war has very little to worry about, it'll live to a ripe old age."
I'm ending Day 1 in Rock Springs, Wyoming -- 1,019 miles from the last time I saw the ocean. Gas price data collection is turning out to be a bit trickier than I had hoped -- lots of stations don't have their prices easily visible from the highway, and there has been a bit of a learning curve in the whole driving-while-writing-price-and-mileage.
Nevertheless, here is what I saw today:
More tomorrow. For now... sleep.
"Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela, la loi ? On peut donc être dehors. Je ne comprends pas. Quant à moi, suis-je dans la loi ? suis-je hors la loi ? Je n'en sais rien. Mourir de faim, est-ce être dans la loi ?" -- Tellmarch
"Человек не может снять с себя ответственности за свои поступки." - L. Tolstoy
"[it] is no doubt obvious, the cult of the experts is both self-serving, for those who propound it, and fraudulent." - Noam Chomsky
Day 2. I'm stopping for the night between Concordia and Columbia, MO. Had to take a bit of a backcountry detour in Iowa, so that one has more miles and fewer stations than it probably should. I notice that Nebraska actually follows a pretty predictable pattern! I wasn't expecting anything like that to happen...
Tomorrow I hope to make it to south Georgia, if not north Florida. So one more chart still to come.
"Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela, la loi ? On peut donc être dehors. Je ne comprends pas. Quant à moi, suis-je dans la loi ? suis-je hors la loi ? Je n'en sais rien. Mourir de faim, est-ce être dans la loi ?" -- Tellmarch
"Человек не может снять с себя ответственности за свои поступки." - L. Tolstoy
"[it] is no doubt obvious, the cult of the experts is both self-serving, for those who propound it, and fraudulent." - Noam Chomsky
I notice you have several different sorts of marks. Could you explain the difference? Are they brand names, or what?
How to spot a shill, by John Michael Greer: "What you watch for is (a) a brand new commenter who (b) has nothing to say about the topic under discussion but (c) trots out a smoothly written opinion piece that (d) hits all the standard talking points currently being used by a specific political or corporate interest, while (e) avoiding any other points anyone else has made on that subject."
"If the shoe fits..." The Grey Badger.
-The last time I saw his chart, it had a legend which showed that the different symbols applied to different states.
Interesting idea, actually.
No legend came through on the picture I saw on his June 14th post, the first view of the chart - or any later ones. An artifact of my browser?
How to spot a shill, by John Michael Greer: "What you watch for is (a) a brand new commenter who (b) has nothing to say about the topic under discussion but (c) trots out a smoothly written opinion piece that (d) hits all the standard talking points currently being used by a specific political or corporate interest, while (e) avoiding any other points anyone else has made on that subject."
"If the shoe fits..." The Grey Badger.
Gas is down at 3.48 at gallon in South Carolina.
Born in 1981 and INFJ Gen Yer
According to Gas Buddy on my iPhone, the cheapest in my town is $3.88 and the highest is $4.03.
About a month ago, the cheapest in my area was $4.12 or something in that range. It's gone down which is good.
I remember a couple years ago, the price of gas shot down and was $1.85 in my area. We thought it would last, unfortunately it didn't and started to go back up again after Obama was elected.
But the most expensive gas has ever been in my town was $4.70 after Hurricane Rita hit Texas in 2005 and the price for diesel at that time was over $5!
Last edited by 92man; 06-16-2011 at 08:54 PM.
1992 Millie
My apologies to Badger. The pictures are just screencaps from Excel. The legends are auto-generated off to the far right of each chart. The symbols go as follows:
Chart 1: WA-OR-WA-OR-ID-UT-WY
Chart 2: WY-NE-IA-MO
Chart 3 (below): MO-IL-KY-TN-GA
Not quite as far as I had hoped today -- I got caught in St. Louis morning traffic and winged by Atlanta evening traffic (thank god only winged, or I'd still be up there). So that's 3000 miles since Tuesday morning, if we're keeping count. Since I'm in Valdosta tonight (only like 10 miles from the GA-FL border), all that will be left to add from my last couple hours tomorrow morning will be Florida. So no legend for that one.
Last edited by Justin '77; 06-16-2011 at 09:36 PM.
"Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela, la loi ? On peut donc être dehors. Je ne comprends pas. Quant à moi, suis-je dans la loi ? suis-je hors la loi ? Je n'en sais rien. Mourir de faim, est-ce être dans la loi ?" -- Tellmarch
"Человек не может снять с себя ответственности за свои поступки." - L. Tolstoy
"[it] is no doubt obvious, the cult of the experts is both self-serving, for those who propound it, and fraudulent." - Noam Chomsky
Last little leg is done. I'm in Tampa now.
Here's day 4:
And here's the whole thing in one shot:
So there you have it. Gas prices from 14 to 17 June 2011, as visible from OR/WA Hwy30, then I84, then I80, then NE/IA Hwy2, then I29, then I435, then I70, then I64, then I57, then I24, then I75.
If it makes enough sense to make this a longterm thing, I'll be flying back to Washington in late August, then driving our other car with Andi and the boys down here at the beginning of September. That time, we'll go down I5, cut through Death Valley, Tuscon, and then use I10 along the Gulf. It's a bit longer, but the kids have never seen cactus before.
Anyway, for now, I've got stuff to get done here.
"Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela, la loi ? On peut donc être dehors. Je ne comprends pas. Quant à moi, suis-je dans la loi ? suis-je hors la loi ? Je n'en sais rien. Mourir de faim, est-ce être dans la loi ?" -- Tellmarch
"Человек не может снять с себя ответственности за свои поступки." - L. Tolstoy
"[it] is no doubt obvious, the cult of the experts is both self-serving, for those who propound it, and fraudulent." - Noam Chomsky
Shell station at Tiny Town Road & 41A, Clarksville, TN:
-Yesterday [19 JUN 2011], still at $3.519/gallon.
Shell station at Tiny Town Road & 41A, Clarksville, TN:
-Yesterday [6 JUL 2011], $3.459/gallon.
Good lord!
I damn near crashed my rental earlier today when I saw, crossing over into SC near Gaffney, gas prices ranging around $3.27/gal!!1!11!1!!1
I know where I'm gassing up on the way back to the airport...
"Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela, la loi ? On peut donc être dehors. Je ne comprends pas. Quant à moi, suis-je dans la loi ? suis-je hors la loi ? Je n'en sais rien. Mourir de faim, est-ce être dans la loi ?" -- Tellmarch
"Человек не может снять с себя ответственности за свои поступки." - L. Tolstoy
"[it] is no doubt obvious, the cult of the experts is both self-serving, for those who propound it, and fraudulent." - Noam Chomsky
Shell station at Tiny Town Road & 41A, Clarksville, TN:
-Today [30 JUL 2011], $3.599/gallon. I think it's been that way for over a week.
Shell station at Tiny Town Road & 41A, Clarksville, TN:
-Today [15 AUG 2011], $3.499/gallon.
Our troubles are over!! Yesterday, Michelle Bachmann promised that "under President Bachmann, gas will cost less than $2.00 per gallon!!
Hallelujah!!
" ... a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition."
I don't doubt that will happen. Slashing Federal, state, and local government spending during a weak economy is the surest way to sink the economy. We saw gas under $2.00 in 2009. With a double dip recession, cheap gas will come back....until the economy picks up again.
I want people to know that peace is possible even in this stupid day and age. Prem Rawat, June 8, 2008
Gas Tracker
what about getting the gas waaaaaay over to the States from the Middle East...shorter travel to here.
