Consumerist brings you a sampling of gas prices from cities around the nation. Red means that gas prices went up, green means they went down.
Enjoy.
| Cities |
This Week |
Last Week |
| Boston | 185.5 |
187.3 |
| Chicago | 203.2 | 196.0 |
| Cleveland |
196.4 |
187.3 |
| Denver |
181.8 |
180.2 |
| Houston |
175.2 |
176.0 |
| Los Angeles |
219.8 |
214.6 |
| Miami |
207.0 |
207.5 |
| New York City |
191.2 |
190.9 |
| San Francisco |
218.4 |
217.7 |
| Seattle |
215.5 |
215.3 |
[Energy Information Administration]
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Moving to Houston . ..
@noone1569: Home of the nation’s worst air quality!
@noone1569: Don’t do it. The slightly lower gas prices are counter-balanced by the fact that you spend so much damn time sitting still in traffic. All the time. Regardless of time of day or day of the week. Cheap gas is all well and good, but when you’re using it sitting on the highway in bumper-to-bumper traffic, it’s not really worth it.
@EyeHeartPie: Also, Houston: home of the worst drivers in the nation. Are you a good driver? You won’t be when you move to Houston…
@noone1569: Dallas is comparable in gas prices (I’ve seen stuff in the $1.65 range) and we’re much nicer. Still lotso traffic, but I take the bus. HOV lane FTW!!!
@noone1569 – Full disclosure: it’s in Texas.
@KyleOrton: Oh, nevermind then!
Moving to Houston . ..
…but then you’d be living … in T e x a s.
I’m just sayin’.
@SteverMan: Don’t I need a passport for that now?
@SteverMan: Why does everyone badmouth Texas? I spent a week there one night, and it didn’t seem so bad.
Our gas in the Chicago burbs tends to fluctuate within 10 cents, and that’s even between stations a mile apart.
I don’t fret about a small change like that, especially while I’m still appreciating not spending $65 twice a week to fill one of my cars.
1.78 this morning in Detroit.
It’s 1.95 most places here in Orlando today.
Heaven knows why, though.
@Oranges w/ Cheese: Good question. I filled up yesterday for $1.89 though.
@Oranges w/ Cheese: HAH! Just two days ago I paid $3.99 at the Sunoco accross from Thrifty car rental, near the airport, as I was hurriedly trying to return my rental and get to the airport to hop on a flight back to my home in Houston.
So what’s wrong with T E X A S? Just because we only have 2 seasons (summer-hot and summer-hotter) doesn’t mean you should pick on us …
Hey, at least I’ll lose 15 pounds this summer … standing outside …
@flyboyJ:
When I think of Texas I think of deserts, sand, blaring sun in my eyes, eating sand because you’re so hot you hallucinate that it’s water. I think of vultures, oh, also the Alamo. (that’s in TX right) Then that makes me think of Pee Wee Herman, and clowns. (that one part where he can’t find his bike and has a nightmare about clowns breaking it) I am horribly afraid of clowns, so I could never live in Texas. Clowns scare me more than death in the desert or vultures.
I won’t be relocating there to save 20 cents a gallon.
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, I’ve actually never been there. Just “educated” assumptions.
@IT-Chick: Pretty much anything east of the Alamo, south of Dallas, and north of the Nueces is quite green and lush. Houston, despite its bad rap for being sprawling and having huge highways (just opened up the Katy Freeway with 22-28 lanes), is actually quite green. I fly in and out of town for work often, and I hear people commenting on how green Houston is as we approach IAH. Most suburban sprawl here takes the place of old fields and prairie towards the west of the city, where there were few trees, and developers actually bring in more trees. East and north of the city is pine forest, where developers have been very careful to preserve as many large trees as possible. Summers are hot, winters are cool and rainy. But no dust storms here. Maybe an occasional hurricane.
@flyboyJ: It’s like 50 degrees today in Houston.
@turi319: 50 degrees today, but it was near 90 a couple of weeks ago.
@flyboyJ: Well the people are sure nicer than here in Boston. And I bet the driving is better too.
@flyboyJ: It was like 38 degrees this morning (Dallas). We have winter, it’s just cold and soggy instead of 14 feet of snow.
San Jose CA
This week Last week
$2.122 $2.193
according to gasbuddy
@Sian:
Wife filled up at Fremont Costco for $2.02
Sucks how California gas is always more than the rest of the country.
Wow, you should all come to Jersey. It’s around ~167.9 in the areas I travel, and we have people who pump it for you. Just don’t come here during the summer.
Paid $1.67/gal to fill up (cash) this morning. Ah, New Jersey. But I wonder how much cheaper it would be if we could pump our own gas instead of sitting around waiting for the attendant to notice you.
@ekthesy: Not much. Picture some of other fine citizens and think about how almost everyday you would see a mushroom cloud from another station going up
@flyboyj: I don’t think anyone is referring to the weather. Besides, in Minnesota we have a saying: it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. So in Texas it’s not the heat, it’s the hillbillies.
/I keed
//a little
@The_IT_Crone:
And the clowns, don’t forget the clowns!
That’s odd…i live in El Lay, and just 12 hours ago filled-up @ a Chevron station – and paid just $1.99.9/gallon.
It’s worth the extra 20+ cents to NOT be living in Texas.
@ ekthesy, actually if you [NJ] didn’t have the pump attendant laws the cost would probably go up. attendant means less chess of theft by drive off.
there are so many of those in my city that gas pump signs that used to say ‘cash: please prepay’ now have the ‘cash: please’ part covered up and just say ‘prepay’
some gas stations end up trying to make up their losses from drive off by charging everyone else a penny or two more
Eh, Houston’s demographics are just like any other major city’s, and most Houstonians are not native Texans. Also, as a liberal upstate New Yorker, transplanted into Texas, I can assure you the rumors as grossly exaggerated (except that everyone really does drive pickup trucks).
@catastrophegirl : that should read “less CHANCE of theft”
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I’ve lived in Texas for 14 years and have never even been near a desert. You know Texas is the size of many states, right? We span several climates. Personally I’ve lived in the Piney Woods and currently in the Hill Country. Just look up pictures in and around Austin. It’s incredible. The only place I’d leave Austin for is Seattle (for the weather).
Now Houston, yes, it is a hole. I go there once a year just for the Natural Science Museum.
@me and the sysop: Now houston, no, it’s not a desert. I would say Austin is closer to being a desert than Houston. And a hole? in what sense?
Maps, self-reported. Updated as the spotters submit them:
[www.gaspricewatch.com]
[gasbuddy.com]
@tz: gasbuddy.com FTW!
@nataku83: Not EVERYONE.
But yeah, I’m in Dallas and it’s fairly liberal, not at all what people expect.
WTH, it’s still $1.95 to $1.99 here in Phoenix, though I did see ONE Circle K at $1.83 which was weiiiiird, because I’m all over the city and no one else is below like $1.93.
@nakedscience:
I paid $1.72 in Tucson yesterday.
Also lol I’m glad I don’t live in Cali.
@nakedscience: Is that because you have never been here? The gas station by my house was at $2.15 today and worth every penny to be in Cali, I’ve traveled all over the states and this is the only place I would live, except LA, can’t stand it there, plus the central valley, it’s way too hot and smells like cow most of the time, plus the bay area, overpriced and pretentious.
@jscott73: so where in cali DO you live
@jscott73: OH, and inland empire is dry as hell. I felt death after a day being there.
@MoreFunThanToast: agreed, and don’t even get me started about orange county, even more pretentious then the bay area with no real character, everyone there looks, talks and acts the same.
@jscott73: So that leaves you with San Diego and that vague area north of the Bay Area that nobody goes to
@rockasocky: Am I that obvious, I used to live in that vague area north of the Bay Area, Humboldt County to be specific, loved it up there. Now I live in San Diego, love it even more down here.
Its $1.69 here, Arlington,Texas(between Dallas and Fort worth)
So far I’m the big winner: $1.65 in Des Moines today.
Massachusetts is on the verge of applying the highest gas tax in the country after March, so we’ll have the joy of seeing that gas price be higher than anywhere else.
Great!!
@MichaelBrazell: Just 19 cents per gallon to fix the roads. With the prices in the chart it would then be 204.5 and still less than LA, Miami, SF and Seattle. $100/year is worth it for better roads, cheaper than having your car fixed after hitting a pothole.
I have seen 1.679 in New Jersey.
Why do prices go UP in a recession?
hmm lucky you guys, it’s $2.17 here in Upstate New York.
@catastrophegirl:
That’s an interesting confounding factor I never considered, however, there is plenty of gas-and-dash going on here; the attendant doesn’t memorize your plate numbers…I wouldn’t think that it goes on that much more in the 48 states where you can pump your own. But I wouldn’t put it past the businesses to pre-emptively raise prices.
What DOES go on here more than anywhere else is robbery of gas station attendants. A 22-year old kid just got murdered a couple weeks ago…these attendants carry huge wads of cash around, presenting an easy target.
@Ektheysy, catastrophegirl: Okay. Make that heat and heavily-armed clowns.
@MichaelBrazell – I see your bet, and raise you another 20 cents in NY. We hate to be outdone when it comes to taxing.
@bubby1124 – Where the heck are you in NY, I live in the lower Adirondacks and paid $1.98 in Gloversville.
I always hear people complaining about Houston traffic. I have lived in about a dozen major cities. I live in Houston now. I don’t think the traffic is nearly as bad as I experienced in Seattle, Boston, and several others.
@YasminAerope: It really isnt that bad. When you consider average speeds, I would say it’s better than most cities. I commute 45 minutes to 1 hour every day to work, in traffic, but I also live about 35 miles from the office. If there is no traffic, It’s about 35 minutes. So, yes there are many cars, yes the commutes are long, but no, traffic is not at a standstill… it moves.
$1.73 this morning in Clemson, SC
No sympathy. Gas is .78USD a Litre here. That’s $2.99USD a gallon. You americans have it way easier than you realize.
@mattwiggins: About 6-9 months ago, gas was getting up to nearly $5 a gallon. That was not, in fact, easier than anyone realized.
@so_gracefully:
And at that time gas was 5.64USD per gallon here. Gas prices went up everywhere, not just in the states, and believe me, Americans get it cheaper than just about anywhere else.
@mattwiggins: I don’t really see how that means it’s “easy” on people. In fact, I would think you would specifically be able to sympathize, but I guess you are beyond empathy, so excuse me.
@ terryindtw -
Detroit or “Detroit” (i.e. the suburbs)?
For those of us who are red/green colour-blind, would you please choose 2 different colours? Blue and orange, for example?
The cheapest gas I’ve seen around here are from the stations across from my work.
It’s been hovering around $2.10 for the past two weeks…
Most places in L.A. is charging for $2.25 or more
2.05 at Costco… 2.25 everywhere else! That’s 20 cents cheaper! Usually its only 10cents cheaper! (Burbank, CA)
$1.80 in Atlanta suburbs. $1.90 near downtown, y’know, where it’s a bit silly to have a car to begin with. In downtown? Hell if I know. I try not to take my car into that Escherian mess.
Tucson – $1.80 (give or take a few cents depending on which part of town you’re in)
Sure, it’s hot in the spring and hotter in the summer, but at least it’s not Phoenix!
Gee, I’m so lucky. Gas in my neck of the woods in Virginia is 173.
Oh look, gas prices went up San Francisco and Los Angeles… what a freakin surprise… Does this count the extra sales tax that we just got hit with thanks to our ridiculous elected leaders?