Gas for Under $3 a Gallon

Posted by Alex in Car & Vehicle, Travel & Places on October 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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22 comments to "Gas for Under $3 a Gallon"

  1. Sara
    October 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.

  2. VitaminCM
    October 9th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    I actually scored a tank full of regular for $2.97/gallon in NJ today.

  3. sadtomato
    October 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.

  4. jimmy
    October 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 !!

  5. Jon Doe
    October 9th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

    Actually, gas is under a dollar at a lot of places in Massachusetts.

  6. ok
    October 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

  7. the Mad Monk
    October 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.

  8. dogrun81
    October 9th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    $2.99 in Michigan.

  9. ECA
    October 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%..

  10. The Manticore
    October 9th, 2008 at 9:19 pm

    Ohio is still bad I guess. $3.07 today

  11. Ikuto
    October 9th, 2008 at 9:55 pm

    Jon Doe, where do you live in MA? I’ve never seen that anywhere around here.

  12. Luci
    October 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.

  13. P
    October 9th, 2008 at 11:10 pm

    Still $3.60 in Miami =/

  14. E
    October 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 :)

  15. easy
    October 10th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    My wife filled up yesterday in Springfield MO for $2.65 gal.

  16. Stevi
    October 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.

  17. sw
    October 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.

  18. SammiBen
    October 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.

  19. darelparker
    October 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.

  20. Thomas
    October 10th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    3.95 for midgrade at the station closest to my house in Macon, Ga. Do I win?

  21. Vella
    October 10th, 2008 at 5:49 pm

    Gas is 2.89 last time I checked here in Nebraska, too.

  22. LisaL
    October 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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