Ohio has nation's cheapest gas
According to AAA, our friends in the Buckeye State are benefiting from the end of the summer driving season by registering the lowest gas prices in the nation. Ohio residents are enjoying a 30-cent discount on fuel, compared to the national average, partly due to seasonal demand and increased competition between the purveyors of the go-juice.
The average cost of tank of unleaded in Ohio is $2.29 a gallon, which in comparison to this writer's residence in the Golden State, is a full 58 cents less than the fill-up station down the road. Fine, we'll see your cheap gas and raise you our ability to go skiing in our shorts.
[Source: NewsNet5.com]
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aki 3:12PM (9/16/2006)
Politics, any fool can see what is happening in Ohio.
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Tim UF 3:16PM (9/16/2006)
http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx
ohio being a swing state? heh... pennsylvania isnt seeng the same benefit...
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MutherTrucker 3:22PM (9/16/2006)
Neither is Mississippi and Louisiana I'm paying 2.80, and guess where the refineries are. Sure it is almost November and the Bushes and big oil will do anything to stay in power. God help us if they do.
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speed42 4:48PM (9/16/2006)
We paid $2.15 in northeast Mississippi last weekend. Felt good.
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UpIrons 3:31PM (9/16/2006)
I live in Ohio. Want to know what is really strange in all of this? The gas was over $3.00 a gallon all summer long but drastically went down for no apparent reason right after Labor day. Now I don't know about other states, but in Ohio Labor day is the official start of the political campaigns... Coincidence?
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Steve Henderson 3:35PM (9/16/2006)
Driving to work today, I saw the ever-elusive price of $1.99 for Marathon gas. My GTO is happy :)
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Seabass 4:04PM (9/16/2006)
Upstate SC has had 2.30 or less for two weeks now. It's now 2.10 in at least six stations around here.
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That One Person 4:08PM (9/16/2006)
Paid $2.07 last nite. Last week I paid $2.25. I am kind of liking this cheap gas. Putting only $20 in my tank is really nice...
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kevin 4:13PM (9/16/2006)
In south-west Florida (Naples)gas prices are still $2.79 a gallon. But we always get screwed down here.
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Cervus 4:14PM (9/16/2006)
UpIrons:
Spare us the conspiracy theories and go read Bloomberg. The gasoline speculation bubble popped because 1) lowered hurricaine forecasts, 2) Rising inventories, 3) End of driving season. Back in March they were predicting all kinds of shortages, especially of ethanol. Add to th at about $100 billion dollars in hedge fund money invested in oil because it's been outperforming the stock market for the past few years.
Gas always drops at this time of year. It was already off its Katrina-level peaks this time last year. Was that political, too?
Geezus.
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Tired_Watcher 5:15PM (9/16/2006)
#10 I thank you for saying the right thing. Everyone wants to blame someone or something...
Well Hawaii always has the highest prices and regular here is around $3.10 avg but I pay $3.20 for 89 RON.
Hawaii is a Red State with a Republican governor...does that affect gas prices? NO.
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Llama 10:06PM (9/16/2006)
We have been paying $2.25 a gallon for the past week and are now down to $2.19, in Tulsa, Ok so i don't know what AAA is thinking but it seems we are lower
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Ryan H 5:31PM (9/16/2006)
2.34 around Champaign, Illinois. Most of the rest of the downstate area (Read: Not Chicago) is within 15-20 cents.
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Tim UF 5:26PM (9/16/2006)
tired_watcher
thats why i brought up Penn... its not seeing the gas prices that ohio is...
its not elections, its just that the kiddies are all back in school, thus ending driving season... plus the lack of strong hurricances (though wilma hit in late october last year... and there were strong storms through til december last year... but we have el nino on our side). there was a big find of oil in the gulf (sweet light crude... the good kind), even though it wont hit market for a while, it will deflate oil futures, and drive prices down... kind of a perfect storm of oil prices going down...
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Frank 5:39PM (9/16/2006)
Gas is is 2.65 - 2.75 in northeast Florida, a red region of a red state. So shut up about conspiracy theories and do something REALLY useful - like writing your Senators and Congressman to open ANWR for drilling. Then we won't have to depend on those nut jobs in the Middle East for oil.
They only need a tiny patch of barren land in one corner of the area to drill. Hey maybe the caribou and the elk can breed and raise their young by the heat of the pipeline like they do on the north slope.
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emor8t 5:44PM (9/16/2006)
Guys, $2.00 is not cheap!
Cheaper than $3.00 yes, still too expensive.
Call me when it goes back down to 1.50... for premium.
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NEBTEK2002 5:54PM (9/16/2006)
Ohio is pretty high-priced.
Council Bluffs,IA, was $2.139, yesterday. Some stations charged that for real gas and priced the E-10 adulterated gas 6 cents higher. Others flip-flopped and charged the lower price for E-10.
Omaha is $2.199 and $2.259 , again with flip-flopping as to whether the lower price was for pure or for adulterated.
In that my vehicles get about 10% less mileage with E-10, a 3% "savings" doesn't
appeal to me.
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tr 6:14PM (9/16/2006)
yeah, filled up my tank yesterday for $2.03/gal in columbus. it's been a while since i spent $20 to fill up. but yeah, it's funny. $2/gal is cheap...now. when i first started driving, i remember thinking any station over $1/gal was too expensive.
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Ford Boy 6:05PM (9/16/2006)
It worked! They have us believing $2/gal is cheap now.
It's no doubt that the oil companies want republicans in office, and think most Americans are too dumb to see this for what it really is (I am a conservative, BTW). They've just decided to stop gouging us until the elections are over - that's all.
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dave 7:11PM (9/16/2006)
as i predicted! now watch the rush to buy BIG suv's.
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