Gas Price in Des Moines

1. Byrd Brain
   October 29th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

   Air powered cars? Already done.

   http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4217016.html

2. Stacy
   October 29th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

   OK, maybe by then the air-powered car will be common and my kids will snicker at our outdated cars that ran on gas.

3. Brett
   October 29th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

   More importantly, why is the super unleaded cheaper than the regular unleaded?

4. nick
   October 29th, 2008 at 7:40 pm

   in south louisiana regular gas is around $2.60. but we dont have ethanol in our fuel like you wacky iowan's. our super unleaded is probably around $2.70 ish. i know your secrets. i grew up in newton.

5. Alex
   October 29th, 2008 at 7:54 pm

   Regular is hovering at around $3 here in Southern California ...

6. thomas
   October 29th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

   $2.49 here in asheville, nc

7. Sofar
   October 29th, 2008 at 7:59 pm

   Regular is $2.79 and 9/10 in Seattle. But a few of the Safeway grocery stores around here have built gas stations and are giving out discounts if you buy enough groceries. They keep track of this with the club cards. Fortunately I'm already using the same club card as three other people who don't own cars. So once it's time to fill the tank I've racked up a thirty or forty cent-per-gallon discount.

8. Christian
   October 29th, 2008 at 8:02 pm

   Here in Hawaii it's hovering around $3.49. About 70 cents less than two months ago.

9. Miss Cellania
   October 29th, 2008 at 8:02 pm

   $2.43 here in SE Kentucky today.

10. renderanything
    October 29th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    Still $2.95 for 85 octane in Southern Utah.

11. Daz
    October 29th, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    git n' go! Geez I wish we had service station names like that in Australia

12. Shell
    October 29th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    Still 4.01 here

13. BC
    October 29th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    We're sharing your pain Hawaii. I'm in Alaska and were hovering around $3.49 too, with the same price trends.

    Kinda frustrating since we're one of the nations primary domestic sources for oil.

14. Stacy
    October 29th, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    @ daz - we have a Kum 'n' Go too

15. ..tom...
    October 29th, 2008 at 8:36 pm

    ...
    Now low $1.90s here in Des Moines.

    That wacky ethanol (@ nick) could help make everyone's gas cheaper ...and yes, without starving the poor of the third world.

    But like all good dreams, low gas prices will disappear soon enough.

    ...tom...

16. seekshelter
    October 29th, 2008 at 8:49 pm

    last time i bought gas was about 2 weeks ago.. it was 2.35. it had been dropping before this and i haven't been paying attention since then.

17. LT
    October 29th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    It's $2.14 in Lubbock, TX! Hallelujah!!

18. Tyler
    October 29th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

    96.5 in PEI Canada.

19. Helgar
    October 29th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

    Brett, the super unleaded in Iowa uses ethanol which makes it cheaper. Is Des Moines seriously the lowest in the nation now (I live there too)?

20. Sofar
    October 29th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

    Ethanol unfortunately doesn't deliver the fuel economy that regular ol' petrol does. Cheaper fuel but you use more of it.

21. TwoDragons
    October 29th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    $1.94 at the HEB in Marble Falls, TX. The lines have been absolutely staggering. I'm surprised they still have stuff in the holding tanks by the end of the day!

    --TwoDragons

22. cheeselover
    October 29th, 2008 at 10:19 pm

    lowest i saw was 2.10 here in petersburg (va, that is).

23. Christophe
    October 29th, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    $7.89 for premium in South of France. Welcome to the State economy ;p

24. just a guy
    October 29th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

    I'm more interested in *why* gas prices are dropping. The huge profit margin gas compines make allowes them a lot of leeway in setting their prices. It the a political reason behind this? It is fallout from the economic troubles? I have no idea! Anyone?

25. Rafael Vale
    October 29th, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    Oh. I'm really happy to see it !

    Here in Brazil, i'm paying R$2,59(U$ 1,14).

26. Derek
    October 29th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    I pay 86 cents per gallon to fill up: http://www.cngutah.com/images/price.jpg

    That's the benefit of using natural gas instead of gasoline

27. Sara
    October 29th, 2008 at 11:39 pm

    1.93 right out side of fort worth tx!!!

28. twoeightnine
    October 30th, 2008 at 12:00 am

    2.89 in Shortsville, Canandaigua, Victor, NY. And no I'm not making that up.

29. Natalie
    October 30th, 2008 at 12:16 am

    How funny... I was going to post the gas price here in Lubbock, TX, but someone beat me to it. Hello, fellow Lubbockite Neatorama reader.

30. Sara
    October 30th, 2008 at 12:45 am

    $1.98 in Springfield, Missouri and $1.95 in Kansas City, Missouri.

31. K!P
    October 30th, 2008 at 1:58 am

    about $9 here in the Netherlands.

32. Rob
    October 30th, 2008 at 2:38 am

    This blog is out of DM? Sweet. Well that makes it all the better to visit, then.

33. alistair
    October 30th, 2008 at 4:35 am

    prices have dropped by around 20% here in the as well to just under £1 per litre.. which I make to be about $6.20 per US gallon.

    $2 per gallon is cheaper than water. (bottled at least)

34. Kevin
    October 30th, 2008 at 5:38 am

    $2.30 this morning in Annapolis, MD.

35. bobbert jefferson 16
    October 30th, 2008 at 5:51 am

    $9.04895634 USD hahaha approximatly here in the good old United Kingdom - basically it was £1.197 for a litre of diesel the other week, although it is creeping down as we speak... Due a hike in a week or so's time as OPEC have anounced a cut in production rates.

36. mjgolli
    October 30th, 2008 at 7:07 am

    $2.09 this morning in Dayton, Ohio...but diesel is still $3.49+. Gas companies have found their bread-n-butter: raping truckers. That's why regular gas is getting cheaper. We can stop driving, truckers can't.

37. Pol x
    October 30th, 2008 at 7:21 am

    £0.95 per litre, down from the high of £1.19 per litre.

    Shows how much of the cost of a litre is tax when the barrel price doubles plus but the price rises by less than 20%.

38. wheyghey
    October 30th, 2008 at 7:21 am

    Cars already DO run on air. They just need octane to make it work!

39. firithlotiel
    October 30th, 2008 at 8:03 am

    $2.63/gal here in Rochester, NY.

40. hondosan
    October 30th, 2008 at 8:13 am

    5,19 USD a gallon (or 1,05€ a liter) here in vienna, austria, which i believe is one of the cheapest places in europe.

41. Farmboy
    October 30th, 2008 at 10:17 am

    @just a guy: It's my understanding that fuel prices are dropping because the speculative investor funds have dried up, thanks to the credit crunch. Just a few years ago the US law was that the only people who could speculate in the fuel market were actual buyers and sellers, not Wall Street traders. Then the law was changed. Traders from outside the industry jumped in and drove the futures up. Now the easy money is gone, so things are returning to a more normal level.

    And oh yeah, I'm another Idiot Out Wandering Around (SE of DSM).

42. A Noun
    October 30th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    2.35 just outside Baltimore.

    Isn't it amazing (she said sarcastically) how gas prices drop just before an election that republicans want to win? Or for that matter, how they dropped just after 9/11?

43. Dave
    October 30th, 2008 at 11:00 am

    $2.13 at the stations on my way to work this morning. That's for 10% ethanol blend, thanks to the gubment subsidies. That only works in the corn belt because of the cost to ship it outside the area.

    @A Noun: "Isn’t it amazing (she said sarcastically) how gas prices drop just before an election that republicans want to win? Or for that matter, how they dropped just after 9/11?"

    Yeah; and isn't it amazing that the Republican magic has penetrated to the middle east markets to bring us oil at >$70 a barrel? There's about as much of a control connection there as Obama has to stopping the rise of the oceans. Give us a break.

44. hifidigitalboy
    October 30th, 2008 at 11:24 am

    It's $3.05 at the gas station by my house in Hollywood. The highest it rose this summer was $4.71.

    Other areas in L.A. were more expensive than that. There is a gas station at Melrose and Fairfax that is notoriously expensive. It's usually around 40 cents more per gallon. Not sure why. It's not Beverly Hills.

    Also, the area around LAX -- namely Inglewood -- is currently around $2.85 - $2.99 per gallon and dropping.

    Not as cheap as the rest of the country, but it's nice to those of us who are used to these prices.

45. amyw
    October 30th, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    $2.79 here in phoenix
    funny has gas prices have dropped so dramatically in the past few weeks, just before the election

46. fu_Al_tax
    October 30th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    Bobbert Jefferson's calculations are a litle out as, although it's still about £1:00 per litre here in the UK, the UK imperial gallon is actually 1.20 US liquid gallons by volume and at todays exchange rate (£1.00 :$1.6413) that puts the equivalent pump price at about $6.22 per US gallon. So I still don't want to hear any complaints from you guys about your $2.00 per gallon nightmare.

47. Dixon
    October 30th, 2008 at 12:48 pm

    $6.08 in the UK (96.9p per liter)

48. Dixon
    October 30th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    $6.08 in the UK (96.9p per liter)

    The working out 96.9p = $1.606 1 US Gallon = 3.7854 liters

    So 1.606 x 3.7854 = $6.0793 per gallon

49. Jason
    October 30th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

    $2.69 in Portland, OR

50. Russ Cross
    October 30th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

    The lowest gas price I've seen in a long time is in a town just east of where I live. Brownsburg, IN has gas for $1.79.

51. becky j
    October 30th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    it's $1.98 here, in Hamilton, Ohio (between Cincinnati and Dayton) : )

52. Chandrielle
    October 30th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    $1.95 in Burleson, TX the other day. Here in Euless, TX it's aruond $2.20

53. Dave
    October 30th, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    Price dropped a few cents this morning; it was $2.10 for 10% ethanol blend when I went by at lunchtime.

    I tend to pay the extra to get the Regular though; my vehicles get 2-3mpg more using Regular instead of the blend. Probably works out to about the same cost per mile driven.

54. strwberrycake
    October 30th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    It's $2.89 here in Walnut Creek, CA

55. richmond
    October 30th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    1.09 CDN per litre in Vancouver Canada
    exchange rate is $.89us per litre
    .89 x 3.785 =3.369 per US Gallon

56. Brent
    October 31st, 2008 at 12:59 am

    Henderson, Nevada - South end of the city

    Unleaded is $4.18 today.

57. Jerse
    October 31st, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    About $2.50 here in North Jersey

58. dee
    October 31st, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Here is Kentville, Nova Scotia, we were excited to see our gas at 99 cents a litre this morning ($3.75 per gallon). It's been a LONG time since we've been under a dollar a litre...

59. jetboy300
    November 8th, 2008 at 10:43 am

    It's $1.98 in Douglasville Georgia today.

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