I live north of Tampa, Florida.

and yeah, been a LONG time since gas prices have been this low.

In Bakersfield it is $3.20-3.25 for the cheap stuff at shell (depending how far from the freeway it is)

S/W corner of First and Gettysburg and also the one at the S/E corner of Ashlan and Cedar. At least that was the price as of yesterday afternoon when I last drove by.

ETA: In Fresno

It's running 2.529ish here in SW Ohio atm

Don't worry, it'll go back up again soon enough.

in fact that was the newspaper headline this am.

But the stuff has to be ferried, so, that drives up costs all over.

It's only a temporary maneuver by the US and the Saudis to ruin the economies of Syria and Russia. Some day soon, prices will shoot back up again, probably higher than before to make up for the current dip in price.

Syria does not export oil and its economy is pretty much ruined already from the civil war.

at your own risk, nothing surprising to be found...

Which is yes is at least 6 billion times more important then even the poorest persons pocket book.

Average is closer to $2.89. We have an extra local gas tax of 25 cents/gallon, then there's zone pricing because only "rich people" live in Fairfield County. Not!!

and they know that Christmas sales are going to be down this year. They think we might spend more if we have cheap gas for a while.

but that's less than it's been for a while. Back in 2008 it was $4.44 for a few weeks.

I noticed the low prices for regular but the higher octane pumps were actually much pricier, and diesel is over 3,00.

Premium and diesel are much higher. We always have extraordinarily high fuel costs here. It's actually cheap here in Anchorage compared to the Bush communities where it's sometimes as high as $6 or $7 a gallon.

Juneau doesn't even have a road into it...

I know there are a lot of factors amid the whys and how of this sudden low gas price, but for now, just for a minute now,
I rejoice because it means so many struggling people can have less expensive job commutes
and less expensive heating oil for awhile.

It gives him about $10 a week in his pocket he didn't have.

-10 bucks a tank in my commuter car
-20 a tank in my DW's DD that we also use for most all family trips.

That's assuming it has always been 3.50 a tank, when in reality it's slowly drifted down to 2.36 so we don't really notice the bank balance. Only the thought of saving 100 bucks remains.

I know the relief that an extra 50 or so a month can bring.


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when they were all hollering about gas prices and what they would do to lower them.

Drill baby drill!

Idiots.

And, there is talk of further price drops.
good for us mere mortals, not so good for the banks who invested in fracking.

Luzerne Co. - Northeastern PA.

Though it's up to $2.47 or so in other places here (Austin)

L-

But hey, Santa Barbara area has a special place in the hearts of Big Oil for trying to rein them in.

Every time the 20 bucks goes further and further. Of course now, here in Oklahoma, they are starting to talk about how it will eventually cost some people their jobs. Idiots never learn that everything goes in cycles.

Does not matter to me. Three weeks from exactly this moment I will be on my way out of the state and then out of the country. Three weeks in Europe and then to my new home in Mauritius.

How did you manage that?

I am pea green with envy, to quote Scarlett.

So off we go. We will both get jobs and work for a few more years. Selling our house as of Tuesday and working towards a goal of self-sufficiency/retirement.

We retired very early in 2005, and in looking where to land, Mr. Dixie wanted to consider Mexico, given his fond memories of being there in teh 70's.
But....I did not want to move there, so he obligingly agreed we could move to another foreign ( for him) land....the Deep South.

Like that Neil Young song says, "got fuel to burn, got roads to drive". And THIS is why the planet is essentially fucked.

Paying 2.26 per gallon instead of 4.00 helps give the budget a little breathing room.

There have been a number of surveys in recent years that have found that people by and large were driving less because of higher fuel prices. See this for instance: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692311001578

for California 3.043

Thing is, I only fill up about once every 4 to 6 weeks or so and that is only the half a tank it takes to top it up. It's a 1989 Nissan Sentra and uses very little gas. I only go anywhere a few times a month and that's usually to just the stores a couple miles down the road.

Those sound like good prices though. Gratz!

Last monday I paid $ 1.98 in OKC.

We are still at 2.39, but that may change this week.

That's one of the few good things about living here again. OK has a very low state gas tax.

I got my fill-up today at Costco for $2.95 which is the lowest I've seen in a long time.

(haven't gotten ten gallons of gas at one fill in a LONG time...!)

Holds a LOT of gas, and since we do not drive too far any more, it should last for a bit.

I was thrilled. My SO doesn't let me put Costco gas in his car, but tomorrow I'm taking mine over to Costco -- hopefully it'll be under 3.00.

I'm with you about seeing prices under 3.00. Unbelievable!

(Rupees per liter)

That works out to about $4.73 / gallon.