With Wyndhy, it's nuzzle envy. ;)

Gentlefolk,

I spoke with my daughter yesterday, and she told me that gas was $3.75 / gal in Los Angeles. That is ¢86 / gal more than what I pay in Baltimore! I wonder what causes such a great difference?

Dropped to 2.88 today

Paid $2.74/gal. yesterday when I filled one of my cars.

$2.85/gal last night when I filled up my little car.

My boyfriend is driving up to Alaska in his SUV (with our trailer of belongings attached), and is likely going to pay about $1,000 total in gas for the trip. Eek!

BlondeCurlGirl,

Indeed so! My daughter, a student in southern California, wanted to surprise my wife, who was on a business trip in Phoenix. After we worked up the round trip cost of gas and she looked at her bank account, she decided that calling her mom made more sense than visiting.

Expensive stuff these days!

$2.79 today

$ 2.74 yesterday. :line:




... wait a minute ...




$ 2.74 is still terrible! :(

In my out-of-town runs, I've learned to keep an eye peeled for remote locations along the interstate with lower gas prices (usually truck stops with a set of pumps for autos as well)...coming back from a l-o-n-g run to KY last week, found a favorite spot just north of TN/KY line that had reg/$2.53, yesterday on the trip back from another intrastate o.o.t. found several regular stations, all $2.49 or *less*...I never look a gift horse in the mouth, but this always makes me wonder...how in the cathair is the gas always cheaper in places that I KNOW had to be more expensive to transport it there?!? :shrug:

scotzoidman,

Lower demand in remote locations perhaps?

I just filled up last night ... $3.57 per gallon ... I get the middle grade at Chevron ... jseal ... the difference is that California has VERY high state taxes on the gas - I believe it is used for road work of various kinds, but I know that I haven't talked with anyone from another state that has as high of gas prices as we do here in CA. :(

Went out this morning and the station said $2.76 ... then, on the way home ... same station ... $2.89. I wonder what profound international event triggered that. :mad:

could be the local and state taxes, too, scotz. *shrug* maybe....at least i think in most places there are local and state taxes on gas in addition to the federal tax

I need to find a website.... it showed the amount of tax per gallon by state... It was interesting... I do recall that CA was the highest. Now what they are doing with the taxes I'm not sure.

fzzy,

Ah! Thank you. My daughter neglected to mention that.