That is a big difference. Around Kansas City most stations on the Missouri side are in the $2.38 - $2.45 range. On the Kansas side where the gas tax is higher it is around $2.50.

We are well over $3.00 in my area......closer to $4.00 for the premium grades. And prices will vary as much as $.50 a gallon depending how far away from civilization you are.....more remote areas will generally have higher prices (although incity stations can be high as well).

I typically only buy my gas at the tribal reservation stations (less or no state gas tax) or at Safeway with my gas discounts. Both are cheaper than Costco, which is miles away anyway.

gardengal, generally speaking, stations on/near freeways are the most expensive in or out of town; but we usually seem to have a sort of rotation where different sectors of the metro area (ie southwest, or campus area, or far north, or east) will have the highest or lowest prices in any given week. This week it is totally mixed up though!

Right now they are running from 2.59 to 2.63 or 2.66. The Quick Trips seem

to be the cheapest. There never seems to be a rhyme or reason to it...sometimes they are just on opposite corners and will vary 5 or 6 cents. They

will start to rise closer to Thanksgiving...trying to catch everyone who has to

travel.

A lot of the variation in gas prices from corner to corner is because they can be in different taxing organizations. Think one is in one town and the other is in another one. When I used to travel I had the stations scoped out so I would not pay the extra airport taxes.

I usually buy gas at WalMart or Ingles. Last time I noticed it had dropped about a nickel to 2.57. Both places are the cheapest around and are usually within a few cents of each other.

In Seattle for mid-grade gas, I just paid $3.82.

$2.82 by us, 25 minutes south $2.63!

I saw 2.37 this morning.

$2.79 to $2.89 In northern Michigan

$3.79 a few days ago. San Jose, CA.

$2.23/2.53/2.88 BP

It was $3.79 at our local Vons today.

Last week at Costco is was $3.49.

4 something? I'm surprised at how many people know exactly how much their gas is!

Two days ago it was $1.09 a litre. I think it went up a dime yesterday. Glad we topped up when we did.

Anywhere from $1.12 to $1.20/litre ($2.95-$3.17/gallon)

One of my favourite stations just changed to Mobil gas. I don't recall many if any, in Canada. Prior to Mobil they've typically been .5/litre cheaper than any other station on the strip. It's still the same, and I'm really happy since they take the PC Optimum reward cards. Esso was the only other station that accepted that.

I always check 'Gas Buddy' to check out prices. Here in Santa Cruz County, California it ranges from $3.34 - $3.99.

Just bought gas at Kroger with ten cents off per gallon for $2.379 a gallon.

Saw $2.54 today in Wisconsin, close to Minnesota

We are just over $4/gallon. We bought gas today and it was $4.01/gallon. The gas pumps where we bought the gas automatically stop at $100 and that was enough to fill the tank 3/4 full.

$2.48 as of a few days ago at Walmart, Racetrac, and Wawa

I've never heard of a $100 "limit" on purchasing gas. My truck has "2" tanks. Some day THAT could be a problem for me.....geez.....

I paid $2.54 yesterday.

nicole, apparently it's to protect customers and merchants from fraud, but it's annoying when one has a gas tank that holds more than $100 worth of gas. You either have to use your credit card to do a second transaction at the pump or go inside and have the gas station people swipe the card in order to go over the $100 limit.

Y'all drive some big cars. 25 gallons ($100/4) would be enough to fill two of my cars (12+12) and have some gas left over. Or the third (larger one) completely and 2/3rds for one of the first two.

Edit to add -

dawn, a limit on a pump charge does not in any way protect a customer from fraud. If your credit card is used fraudulently at a gas pump or anywhere else, your liability for such charge is $0.

It's to protect the store and or the card issuer- they're the ones on the hook for a fraudulent charge.

I always fill at about the halfway mark..about $40.

I paid $2.09/gallon yesterday.

The limit is on debit cards, isn't it? In a similar vein, the gas stations would put a $100 hold on your account if you used a debit card, even if you only bought $5 worth of gas. I don't know if that is still the practice since I now try to only use prepaid cards to buy (due to the rash of skimming that happened this summer).

Today we have our lowest price at $2.12, and some stations still sticking with $2.79, several at $2.69. These are for "regular" grade.

caflowerluver, I always check GasBuddy too, wherever I am when I need to fill up.

Isn't crude oil selling very LOW right now?

It's hard to compare gasoline prices due to all the various taxes levied and laws regarding content and blends, sometimes season-related.

OMG, someone on my Nextdoor forum reported gas for $1.99 the same day I filled up for $2.09. And I had driven right by the station without noticing.

raee, they do it on credit cards too (at least in my area). Just happened to me the other day; I thought I'd had one of those moments where the numbers just magically worked out to be exactly $100 but then I realized that the pump had cut off when it reached $100.

Having experienced credit card fraud more times than I care to remember, I know how it works with regard to liability and all that. I was simply passing on what to nicole what I've been told by the gas station folks.

As between what a clerk behind the counter in a gas station says and what an employee in the credit card department of every single bank or other credit card issuer will tell you, I think it's easy to choose which one is well informed and which is uninformed. You can pass along whatever you want but isn't it better to pass along good information than misinformation?

Another wrinkle is that since chip cards became available in the US a few years ago, there was a shifting of liability for fraud from the card issuer to merchants under some circumstances. When a merchant doesn't have chip reading card equipment, it can be liable for fraudulent use - this is a new wrinkle. If it DOES have chip reading equipment, different story. This was done to encourage merchants to get chip readers to take advantage of the greater security offered by chip cards, because making them available would have been a waste of money and effort if no merchants had equipment to read them.

Few gas pumps read card chips and continue to rely on reading the mag strip, potentially exposing the merchant to this risk. Stolen cards are often used at gas pumps (and online) because there's no face to face contact or need to present ID. Gas stations that limit a card charge do so to limit their own liability/risk for unauthorized card use. No matter whether in a given fraudulent card use the merchant or the issuer is stuck, it's rarely or never the card holder.

We paid 97.9/liter yesterday-but thats at an Indian reserve...generally .15 lower than regular gas stations...regular stations are running at $1.11-$1.17/liter.....average per gallon for us is $4.16.

Like Elmer,I have the 12 gal tank

When we were in Tijuana, it was 23 pesos a liter (about $1.15 liter, about $3 a gallon) and we had to buy a LOT of it, cause we were driving an old, big van.

San Diego gas is CRAZY expensive, normally $4 a gallon. Here in Phoenix its about $3.

Gas has been more expensive in California than in neighboring states for a few decades, because of air pollution control laws that set standards for gas sold here that gas sold in neighboring states doesn't comply with. The gas is allegedly more expensive to produce and required in-state refineries to add extra equipment not used elsewhere. The standards prevent moving gas into the state from elsewhere when prices are favorable, which would reduce prices. The good news is that California's aggressive air quality measures at state and local levels, including setting emission standards for cars that have been more stringent than the federal standards over the years, have improved air quality.

There are a few other reasons too. Here's an article from a few years ago:

LA Times - Why Calif gas is more expensive

I paid $2.89 yesterday, but I was more concerned about the weather. I almost always fill the tank when I get gas (because getting gas is a bit of a nuisance), but the wind was so cold and so fierce that even though i was warmly dressed, when the pump said $55 I said, "Enough is enough" and got back in the warm car.