Gas Prices Hit ONE DOLLAR a Gallon

[ksimons]

Source: Mapquest Survey

See link for map & prices near your location:

Lowest Price
$1.00 /gallon
CLEVELAND, MS



Read more: http://gasprices.mapquest.com/?area=national

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In a related article (linked below)

Columbus, Ohio - Oil tumbled below $44 a barrel Thursday and AVERAGE gasoline prices slipped under $1.80 a gallon, both four year lows. The unprecedented decline in energy prices has provided some relief to consumers and businesses, but it has occurred because of the nation's deepening recession: Fewer people have jobs to drive to. Gasoline futures for January delivery closed below a dollar, with optimism about the nation's economic health in serious decline.

It was the first close below $1 since 2006, when gasoline began trading in the current format. When gasoline included the additive MTBE, it last crossed the $1 barrier in February 2004.

http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_11139628

[Gman]

1. I bought gas today in Pharr, TX for $1.49

it's amazing. A mile away it was $1.69 and $1.74.

[ksimons]

14. oh no

it was only $1.39 near you at the DIAMOND SHAMROCK
2220 E HIGHWAY 83, MISSION, TX

you were robbed!!! (grin)

[Gman]

47. Crap!!

[Roland99]

33. $1.49 here in Louisville last night (but w/10 cent Kroger discount)

$24.25 to fill up just over 16 gallons. Ahhhh....so nice.

[Milspec]

37. $1.49 at the QT here in Tulsa

Sams Club is probably a few cents less.

[Muttocracy]

2. still over $2 here. nt

[AndyTiedye]

24. We Don't Get the RED STATE DISCOUNT

The red state discount has gotten bigger since there are fewer red states than there used to be.
Now we blue states pay almost double.

[charlie and algernon]

45. not in MD, it's gotten down to $1.62 in Baltimore

[GoesTo11]

3. Economy? Ha. I'm going for a sweet drive.

[bkkyosemite]

4. $1.99 here should be cheaper...

[tekisui]

7. When you factor in the military actions to defend oil,

the health and environmental consequences of the use of oil, it is still costing you $15 a gallon. Our taxes pay the rest.

[ksimons]

5. Now How About Those Fuel Surcharges & Extra Bag Fees w/ Airlines?

What gives?

[Just-plain-Kathy]

10. I wonder if home heating costs will still be high. My last fill up cost me close to $700. ...n/t

[Maine-ah]

34. if you did a contract with your oil company

you'll probably still end up paying the higher price. You should give them a call :hi: I don't heat with oil, my whole house is on gas, but I have a price cap. So I don't pay more than 2.85, but if it goes down I get the lower price.

[hendo]

22. the airlines are still hurting financially

fewer people are traveling. Those extra charges won't go away any time soon.

[AlinPA]

6. Start cranking up the big engines! Trade in those little cars!

[condoleeza]

32. I think that must be what they're hoping for

[msongs]

8. Cars are NOT selling. They are way overpriced. slash the prices, they will sell nt

[sarcasmo]

50. Without a job you can't buy a car. 500,000 people laid off in November alone.

[w4rma]

56. And salaries have been slashed so much that folks *with* jobs can't afford relatively new cars. (nt)

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Still $2.60 here.

[Oldtimeralso]

11. $1.82/ in Chi burbs

[ekelly]

15. Really? I wouldn't have expected it

to be so low there already.

Mind if I ask which suburb you're in?

I grew up in Park Ridge.

[ksimons]

12. So is this good or bad for the economy -?

Seems to me it could answer the short-term issues with production costs, home heating, industrial shipping costs, travel, etc... and could even help the big 3 unload some gas guzzlers ahead of getting into a green mindset.

Time to get into the home-gas-tank business to store some of that cheap gasoleeeen!

[freedomnorth]

31. Sadly, gas price is not something that defines economy.

Gas prices react to economy. Its more like supply and demand thing. As economic activity slows down, juice needed to "oil" it is needed less. And thus, scarcity turns to abundance.

[TheDebbieDee]

13. $1.39/gallon here in Kansas City !

[Inkyfuzzbottom]

16. Down here in parts of Cass county and in So. KC

near the old Bannister Mall it was $1.37 this afternoon.

[Purveyor]

17. $1.45 around here in mid-michigan (jackson)... eom

[TXDemGal]

18. $1.70 in my part of Austin, TX

[desktop]

19. But T Boone Pickens guaranteed Oil would never again drop below $100 a barrel

So much for the credibility of the financier of the SwiftBoat Liars. He may have some good wind production ideas, but most of his wind is just a bunch of hot air. The good news is he has taken a financial bath in this stock market crash and I haven't been seeing his commercials anymore either.

[boilinmad]

40. He's probably....

...at home, thinking up more ways to screw the American public, and get richer, richer, richer. He's an idiot.

[defendandprotect]

20. This is temporary while thoughts of "Windfall Profits Tax" hang in air --

Let's let oil companies bail out the auto industry --

That's who the made their cars for -- not consumers--!!

[defendandprotect]

21. $1.59/$1.69 here in Central NJ ---

[Endangered Specie]

23. $1.62 in Raleigh, NC

I love watching it go down and down and down

[DollyM]

25. not surprising considering the economy in Mississippi . . .

One of the lowest states in wages too so I can see it being the lowest in gasoline costs. I am in southern Illinois, gas is $1.55 here which shouldn't be that high but we have a higher gas tax in Illinois which keeps our overall fuel prices higher. The unemployment in my county is now at 10 percent and expected to rise. My husband lost his job in October, I lost mine a couple of weeks ago. I had just gone back to work so I don't qualify for unemployment and my hubby has been "underemployed" for over a year which means he has taken anything, contract work, wal-mart, sales, etc., to help keep food on the table but the low wages means unemployment will be very low. Still, something is better than nothing so he applied for the new extension last week and can start filing Sunday. As for gas, we can't afford to go anywhere or buy anything anyway so the lower prices don't help us much anyway. I think a lot of us are in this situation. Kind of ironic that gas is reasonable in price again and we can't afford to go anywhere due to no jobs.

[sce56]

26. I filled up today for $1.73 Gal in Port Huneme

Lowest Gas Prices in Ventura County
Price Station Address City Time
1.73 Thrifty
1501 W Gonzales Rd & N Ventura Rd
Oxnard
Dec 4,8:31 PM 1501 W Gonzales Rd & N Ventura Rd Oxnard Dec 4, 8:31 PM
1.75 Chevron
1132 S Oxnard Blvd & Saviers Rd & E Wooley Rd
Oxnard
Dec 4,8:37 PM 1132 S Oxnard Blvd & Saviers Rd & E Wooley Rd Oxnard Dec 4, 8:37 PM
1.75 ARCO
2850 S Rose Ave & E Channel Islands Blvd
Oxnard
Dec 4,2:23 PM 2850 S Rose Ave & E Channel Islands Blvd Oxnard Dec 4, 2:23 PM
1.75 Costco
2001 E Ventura Blvd & Paseo Mercado
Oxnard
Dec 2,8:30 PM 2001 E Ventura Blvd & Paseo Mercado Oxnard Dec 2, 8:30 PM
1.77 Shell
1901 N Rose Ave & E Gonzales Rd
Oxnard
Dec 4,5:08 PM 1901 N Rose Ave & E Gonzales Rd Oxnard Dec 4, 5:08 PM
1.77 Valero
3402 E Vineyard Ave & Simon Way
El Rio
Dec 4,4:49 PM 3402 E Vineyard Ave & Simon Way El Rio Dec 4, 4:49 PM
1.77 Valero
11005 Citrus Dr & S Wells Rd
Ventura
Dec 4,8:00 AM 11005 Citrus Dr & S Wells Rd Ventura Dec 4, 8:00 AM
1.77 ARCO
700 S Oxnard Blvd & 7th St
Oxnard
Dec 3,11:18 PM 700 S Oxnard Blvd & 7th St Oxnard Dec 3, 11:18 PM
1.77 Joe's Gas and Smog
1720 S Oxnard Blvd near E Date St
Oxnard
Dec 3,5:42 PM 1720 S Oxnard Blvd near E Date St Oxnard Dec 3, 5:42 PM
1.79 76
605 S Rose Ave & E 5th St
Oxnard
Dec 4,8:36 PM 605 S Rose Ave & E 5th St Oxnard Dec 4, 8:36 PM
Ventura Gas Prices provided by GasBuddy.com

[davidthegnome]

27. 2.02 in my neck of the woods

Northern Maine, north of Presque Isle and Caribou (which are roughly 200 miles north of Bangor). I'm expecting it to keep dropping... in the short term it may seem that it's providing some relief, long term... I think it may be a potential disaster.

[soothsayer]

28. i just passed a $1.67, $1.84, and $1.99 in the same block

[merwin]

30. Depends on when they bought the gas probably.

They base their gas prices mostly on what it costs them to buy it + some margin. It's been dropping so quickly that seeing drastically different prices isn't uncommon until it settles down a bit.

[DeltaLitProf]

29. I live in Cleveland, MS

I haven't gone by that store, but it seems likely someone reported wrongly. All the rest of our stations sell gas for around $1.60 mark.

[RandomThoughts]

35. If you watched the movie

"The Quick and the Dead" you understand why economic problems occured before the election. It is stated clearly by Gene Hackman(actor) playing the self proclaimed town owner. You have enough money to hire a gun, you need to have your money taken away.

Luckily providence prevailed, and the story told in that film did not come about. Or to put it more poetically bullets don't work.

[RebelOne]

36. It's averaging $1.58 to $1.69 here in North Georgia.

In Cherokee County where I live, it's $1.58 to $1.65. But farther south in Marietta where I work in Cobb County, next door to Atlanta, it's about $1.65 to $1.69.

[DemoTex]

38. I paid $1.51/gal Wednesday afternoon at Costco in Greenville, SC.

It was $1.54 that morning when I filled up wifey's car.

[BoneDaddy]

39. I need an expert

to explain to me how we can go from close to 4 bucks a gallon a couple of months ago to 1 dollar now.

Is this arbitrary? Price gouging? How can this be?

[boilinmad]

41. I was just thinking....

..., after seeing a bumper sticker that said "GAS WAS $1.46 WHEN BUSH TOOK OFFICE", that they're probably manipulating the price for his 'legacy'. He'll be able to say that he kept the price down, not mentioning in the history books that it hit almost $5.00 a gallon because of the idiot.

[Nihil]

42. We have a winner!

> "GAS WAS $1.46 WHEN BUSH TOOK OFFICE"
> He'll be able to say that he kept the price down, not mentioning
> in the history books that it hit almost $5.00 a gallon

Not only this but the inevitable price rise (probably as sharp and
painful as the last "wave") will hit shortly after Obama takes power.

[slackmaster]

44. The Illuminati, Bilderbergers, etc. don't actually have that much control over oil prices

What is likely to happen in the next few weeks is OPEC cutting production due to the very real reduced demand from the US and China.

[slackmaster]

43. I paid $1.84 at a Chevron station in San Diego yesterday

I was surprised.

[Zhade]

52. 1.89 here in L.A.

NT!

[Sherman A1]

46. It went up yesterday in St. Louis from $1.45 to $1.69

can't figure that one out at all.....

[Wabbajack_]

48. Don't drive

no clue what the price is in Chi-town.

[Divine Discontent]

49. IT'S WRONG - DUer above in that town says gas is 1.60 roughly...

It's 1.40 or higher everywhere I've seen. I paid 1.77 here in CA.

[ohio2007]

54. How much of that is state tax ?

People in Caifornia pay big time taxes on fuel.

[jkappy]

51. Good! Can drive to cheaper food prices n/t

[ohio2007]

53. Saw cherries from Chile @ 3.89 lb ! Transportation cost fall= food prices follow

[Sex Pistol]

55. One can only hope that at least some of those oil futures traders

caught caught with their pants down.