Congratulations New Jersey and New Hampshire! Your average price per gallon for that life blood we call gasoline is still under $3. New Jersey has the cheapest gas at an average price of just $2.93! How do they do it? More importantly, how did we managed to write this post without cracking a New Jersey joke? Because we’re above that, people. Yes, we are. —MEGHANN MARCO
Down to the Final Two [Daily Fuel Economy Tip]
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By the way, $3.49 per gallon is nothing. That comes out as 47p per litre.
It’s 95.9 here.
There was a refinery breakdown/blowup in Whiting, Indiana recently. That’s partially the reason gas prices are higher in the Midwest.
Speaking of bikes, a former co-worker of mine is biking around the globe, partly to bring awareness to biking as an alternate form of transportation. Most of what I know about bike commuting comes from this guy.
…..I filled up yesterday in Birmingham at a Shell, and Regular was $3.19. I never thought I’d see the day it takes $25 to fill up a dinky four-cylinder car!
I always have to remember that, compared to the UK, US prices are wonderful. Last time I was over there they were the equivalent of approximately $7/gal.
However…and this is to all the folks who are glad that gas prices are going up…try living where I am, in the suburbs where there is NO public transportation and NO way to get to work on a bike. It would probably take me over an hour to bike to work, which wouldn’t be so bad except it’s all on a major highway with no berm. I’d die. And did I mention no public transit?
@Pipes:
Even if you were comfortable with the risk, bicycles are prohibited on interstates and a lot of other highways.
I would love to ride my bike to work, but I’ve never been able to bicycle to any job I’ve had because I could never find a safe route between home and work. What I saved on gas would end up going toward the hospital bill (or funeral expenses).
Yeah, so what if us New Jersians have cheap gas, but my road pays the highest taxes in the country…..so yeah, we don’t have it as good as it sounds.
I don’t know about the rest of the state, but we’re sitting on a whopping $2.89 in Upstate South Carolina.
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Someone really needs to sort out public transport in smaller towns in America, it really is very, very poor, and would save a lot of people a crap load of money.
While not huge in the grand scheme of oil prices. What did people expect? They could continue to suck up fuel in their idiotic Hummers, F350′s, Excursions and every other flavor of monolithic land yachts.
This day was inevitable.
The only way to truly turn things around is for gas to get up to about $6 or $7 dollars a gallon. Then maybe, just maybe, the gluttonous hogs out there would consider the rest of us and drive something a little less supportive of the Middle East.
The average price of gas on the island of Puerto Rico is 75 cents per liter, so 4 liters is equivalent to 1.05 gallons. That makes the price of gas on the island at about $2.98 per gallon. Thats the lowest in the nation and territories.
I think higher prices on gasoline can only be a good thing. The government should be discouraging the use of private vehicles that cause major environmental, congestion and noise problems and using the extra tax revenue to subsidise more public transport schemes.
Here in UK, we pay ~US$7/gallon and I think that’s perfectly justified. Americans seem to have a love of gas-guzzling cars that pump out emissions and use up our natural resources. Remember, future generations have to live in the world we shape today.
Gas is nuts here in RI. In one week it’s gone up 15 cents a gallon. We’re now at $3.09 or so, and I bet today we’re at $3.25.
I do find that Hess is a good ten or more cents cheaper per gallon than all the other stations. I just have slight uneasiness buying gas there since it’s Venezuelan oil that goes into it, and Chavez is a dictator.