Gas for Under $3 a Gallon

By Alex in Auto & Transportation, Travel on Oct 9, 2008 at 4:16 pm

No, that’s not a mistake. Nor is it a photo from a year ago. That truly is gas for under $3 – but to get it, you have to travel all the way to Georgetown, South Carolina:

AAA of the Carolinas reported drivers were snagging the best deals on Wednesday at the Winyah One Stop on Highmarket Street, as cars lined up for the $2.86 bargain for unleaded regular gas. Gas prices dipped even lower than $2.86 Thursday morning, dropping 8 cents in one night.

The owners of Gene’s Country Store saw much of the same activity earlier this week after dropping the price of gas 20 cents on Monday. Prices opened the week at $3.15 before falling to a steady $2.95 per gallon. As of Thursday morning fuel reports, the store, also located on Highmarket Street, has continued the bargain for locals into the beginning of the weekend.

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Sara
Oct 9th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
That’s actually about the price here in Missouri as well. My friend claimed to have seen $2.69 somewhere in town, but most places are in the $2.70 range.
VitaminCM
Oct 9th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I actually scored a tank full of regular for $2.97/gallon in NJ today.
sadtomato
Oct 9th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
I know my opinion is not going to be popular but I wish the prices would stay high. It’s the only thing that has motivated people to get out of their cars. I hope the folks who have found a different more environmentally sound way of commuting stick to it even if the gas prices dip.
jimmy
Oct 9th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Yep … your eyes are not deceiving you. The “base”
price for gas is 2.05. Add the Fed and state taxes and it comes to 2.70(?). http://charts3.barchart.com/chart.asp?sym=RBY0&data=A&jav=adv&vol=Y&di vd=Y&evnt=adv&grid=Y&code=BSTK&org=stk&fix=

$4.00 a gallon was all big unregulated speculative bet by the investment banks and funds by way of the “Commodity Modernization Act”. We probably won’t see that price for another 5 – 10 years !!
Jon Doe
Oct 9th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Actually, gas is under a dollar at a lot of places in Massachusetts.
ok
Oct 9th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
hey its going to go up after the elections

its going to go way up! so is food! and eveything else
the Mad Monk
Oct 9th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Gas prices have been in free-fall in the Austin,TX area for the past 2 weeks. We have dropped almost a full dollar in under 14 days. We are averaging about $2.95 with the lowest I saw earlier today was $2.72.
dogrun81
Oct 9th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
$2.99 in Michigan.
ECA
Oct 9th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
JUST in time for the COLA(cost of living Allowance) estimation..
Thats what Social sec. use’s to ADJUST payments.
It happens EVERY year at this time, the 3rd quarter.
AFTER the 3rd Q, it Goes NUTS for xmas.

Figure that in the last 10 years, SS has gone up about 25%, and the COST of living has gone up 50%..
The Manticore
Oct 9th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Ohio is still bad I guess. $3.07 today
Ikuto
Oct 9th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Jon Doe, where do you live in MA? I’ve never seen that anywhere around here.
Luci
Oct 9th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Where in Ohio Manticore? We’ve been around $2.96 in Akron and I heard it was $2.75 somewhere in Cleveland.
P
Oct 9th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Still $3.60 in Miami =/
E
Oct 10th, 2008 at 5:39 am
$7,05 in my hometown – Delft, the Netherlands. Price includes approximately 65% government taxes. Apparently they use the money to pay for health care, free education and stuff
easy
Oct 10th, 2008 at 8:32 am
My wife filled up yesterday in Springfield MO for $2.65 gal.
Stevi
Oct 10th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Nobody is going to believe this but I swear it is true. I found gas for 2.12/a gallon last weekend in Iowa.
sw
Oct 10th, 2008 at 10:17 am
man, and I was excited at $3.27 here in maine. everything takes extra time to make its way up here, sigh.
SammiBen
Oct 10th, 2008 at 10:52 am
It’s also under $3 here in Lawrence, KS. There are differing prices all around town, but I think the lowest one I saw on my drive to work this morning was $2.82.
darelparker
Oct 10th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
$2.59 for regular at a Murphy’s/Wal Mart in Harlingen, TX.

I still think it’s bizarre that anything under $3.00 is now widely considered a good price for a gallon of gasoline (in the U.S. at least). It was less than half that eight years ago.
Thomas
Oct 10th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
3.95 for midgrade at the station closest to my house in Macon, Ga. Do I win?
Vella
Oct 10th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Gas is 2.89 last time I checked here in Nebraska, too.
LisaL
Oct 10th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Ugh.. wish it was that low everywhere in SC. In the NE Columbia area, most places are still in the 3.20-3.40 range.
It was at just under 4.00 for a while, so good to finally see the prices coming down now. Bout freakin time.

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