Need to Find Cheap Gas?

[rollazn]

www.gasbuddy.com

GasBuddy.com can help you find cheap gas prices in your city. It is comprised of 170 gas price information web sites that help consumers find low gasoline prices. All web sites are operated by GasBuddy. GasBuddy has the most comprehensive listings of gas prices anywhere by far.

 

[Joey D]

I love that site, I look at it before I fill up.

 

[rollazn]

I love that site, I look at it before I fill up.

Totally. From the price of gas these days - saving every cent will help.

I filled up my 2001 Nissan Quest and it cost right at $30 dollars. I had a little in the gas tank as well. $2.69 I think - was the cost - and it was for the regular one as well.

It's times like this I wished I owned a Civic or a Prius.

 

[Joey D]

I filled up today and paid 40.00 to fill up at $2.45 a gallon. I can't wait till I sell my truck and get something more fuel effiecent. Although the VW I'm looking at will require premium but thats only 20 cents more and that means it will only cost me 3 more bucks to fill it up over the regular.

 

[neanderthal]

i just go to costco. always competitive prices.

but hailing from the third world i scoff at these gas prices. this cheap in comparison to the rest of the world

 

[1X83Z]

People actually care enough to check before they go? What's the max savings, like $0.05? Come on.

 

[rollazn]

Well - the one I went to was 2.69 a gallon - if I would have checked - I would have went to the other one a few miles ago which is only 2.05. That and the amount of gallon - I saved a few bucks.

 

[a6m5]

Maybe I should be, but I don't go by prices either. I've always used Chevron station by my work. Good service, never any idiots working there, fast in, fast out. I've been to stations where attendants........ wait a minute. I just realized that Oregon is one of the few states, where there's gas station attendants who fill up your tank! Anyway, I don't like stations where they are rude or have to go inside to pay. ARCO was the worst. When gas prices got really bad last year, I went there because they were so much cheaper than the competition. But they were all acting cocky and everything, I never went back. 👎 Plus, I hear ARCO gas is bad for your car. I've heard this from so many people, many of them mechanics. Anybody know why?

 

[G.T]

www.gasbuddy.com

Is there one for the UK? Petrol prices here are ridiculous.

 

[Klostrophobic]

I just went to Canada with a couple of my cousins, and I got stiffed into paying for a tank of gas while we were in Canada. Friggin' like $3.50 a gallon.

Are these sites really useful? Is it worth it to drive 8 miles out of the way to save 6 cents a gallon?

 

[a6m5]

I just went to Canada with a couple of my cousins, and I got stiffed into paying for a tank of gas while we were in Canada. Friggin' like $3.50 a gallon.

Are these sites really useful? Is it worth it to drive 8 miles out of the way to save 6 cents a gallon?

I hope that's $3.50 Canadian.

 

[Klostrophobic]

Yeah, but that's still close to 3 bucks US. It's only like 2.25ish around here.

 

[G.T]

To a US gallon over here in the UK, it costs on average £3.22. And that's in pounds!

85p per litre.

 

[a6m5]

Yeah, but that's still close to 3 bucks US. It's only like 2.25ish around here.

Gotcha. Yeah, that's pretty high. I think L.A. got that bad couple of months ago? I'm not sure. I just hope it wasn't "per liter". First time I drove into Canada, I think it said 60(km/h). I drove at 60 mph for little while.

 

[kikie]

This thread (that site I mean) is useless for Europeans.

 

[Flerbizky]

In DK we have Benzinpriser.dk which does the same...

And you can all stop whining now - Here in DK, with the current exchange rate, a gallon is US$ 5.71.....

 

[LoudMusic]

People actually care enough to check before they go? What's the max savings, like $0.05? Come on.

More like $0.10 per gallon, and for some people it's 20 gallons. That's $2.00 per tank. I burn more than a tank a week. That's over $100 per year.

Right now I spend more than a paycheck a year in gas. I get two paychecks per month (1st / 15th), so 1/24 of my income goes to FUEL. That's pretty bad. It costs me about $5 per work day to drive to and from work.

Five cents is a big deal when you put it into perspective. It compounds really fast.

 

[Joey D]

More like $0.10 per gallon, and for some people it's 20 gallons. That's $2.00 per tank. I burn more than a tank a week. That's over $100 per year.

Right now I spend more than a paycheck a year in gas. I get two paychecks per month (1st / 15th), so 1/24 of my income goes to FUEL. That's pretty bad. It costs me about $5 per work day to drive to and from work.

Five cents is a big deal when you put it into perspective. It compounds really fast.

I know where you are coming from I drive close to 20 miles one way to work, I watch prices very carefully.

 

[RVDNuT374]

I win. A gallon of regular gas here costs $2.12.

 

[Roo]

I filled up today and paid 40.00 to fill up at $2.45 a gallon. I can't wait till I sell my truck and get something more fuel effiecent.

Righty... so you put 16.33 American gallons into your truck. A US gallon is 7/8ths of a UK gallon, so that's 14.29 UK gallons. There are 4.544 litres in a UK gallon, so that's 64.93 litres - lets say 65. At the nearest petrol station to me, it costs 88p for a litre. £0.88 x 65 = £57.20. In US dollars, that'd be $100.56.

You spent $40; over here for the same amount of fuel you would've spent $100.

I filled up my 2001 Nissan Quest and it cost right at $30 dollars. I had a little in the gas tank as well. $2.69 I think - was the cost - and it was for the regular one as well.

$30 divided by $2.69 is 11.15 US gallons. That's 9.76 UK gallons; 44.35 litres. Multiply by £0.88 and you get £39.03. That's US $68.62.

I used http://www.xe.com/ucc/ for the currency conversions.

Yeah, I get a tad annoyed when Americans complain about fuel prices.

 

[a6m5]

Roo: In America, you simply can not go anywhere without driving. Way the roads/streets are laid out, 99 % of the people doesn't walk or ride bikes anymore, except as a recreation. Most cities' transit system's are not to effective either. Imagine having to drive everywhere you go, plus everything is so far apart in the States, most drivers put on 10,000-15,000 miles, each year. That's each person. I don't know about your country, but I doubt they'd be that high.

I do understand your statement though. We do whine quite a bit about the "high" gas prices, but it's waaaaaaaaaaay higher in most rest of the world.

 

[Roo]

Roo: In America, you simply can not go anywhere without driving. Way the roads/streets are laid out, 99 % of the people doesn't walk or ride bikes anymore, except as a recreation. Most cities' transit system's are not to effective either. Imagine having to drive everywhere you go, plus everything is so far apart in the States, most drivers put on 10,000-15,000 miles, each year. That's each person. I don't know about your country, but I doubt they'd be that high.

I do understand your statement though. We do whine quite a bit about the "high" gas prices, but it's waaaaaaaaaaay higher in most rest of the world.

I read something similar in one of Bill Bryson's books (Notes from a Big Country) and assumed he was being sarcastic and was exaggerating a bit, particularly when he mentioned his next door neighbours driving the 100 yards to his house for dinner, but apparantly not. Which is slightly worrying. I'm looking forward to going to America sometime to see what stereotypes are true and which aren't, such as the driving everywhere thing.

On the other hand, Britain is a fair bit smaller than the US - there's bigger states at your end than the whole of the British Isles, so we don't have far to drive.

I've driven 9,000 miles in the past 12 months (my first year on the road). Our public transport system isn't great either - not working at all in London at the mo, obviously, but it isn't anything special when it isn't being bombed. If I was to take public transport to my work every day it'd take an hour and a half to do 13 miles; in the car it takes 25 mins. However, if I'm going into town - about half a mile - I'll always walk. Same with the railway station (about 4 thirds of a mile).

Still, doesn't stop fuel being insanely cheap 3500 miles east of where I'm sitting, and insanely expensive about half a mile away. Ho hum.

 

[a6m5]

I read something similar in one of Bill Bryson's books (Notes from a Big Country) and assumed he was being sarcastic and was exaggerating a bit, particularly when he mentioned his next door neighbours driving the 100 yards to his house for dinner, but apparantly not. Which is slightly worrying. I'm looking forward to going to America sometime to see what stereotypes are true and which aren't, such as the driving everywhere thing.

On the other hand, Britain is a fair bit smaller than the US - there's bigger states at your end than the whole of the British Isles, so we don't have far to drive.

I've driven 9,000 miles in the past 12 months (my first year on the road). Our public transport system isn't great either - not working at all in London at the mo, obviously, but it isn't anything special when it isn't being bombed. If I was to take public transport to my work every day it'd take an hour and a half to do 13 miles; in the car it takes 25 mins. However, if I'm going into town - about half a mile - I'll always walk. Same with the railway station (about 4 thirds of a mile).

Man, I miss walking. I grew up in Japan, which is lot more like Great Britain than the USA, so I used to walk and ride bike a lot. It's just that US is so huge, that I live by pretty busy street, but the closest store is a 7-11 that's like half a mile away.

Still, doesn't stop fuel being insanely cheap 3500 miles east of where I'm sitting, and insanely expensive about half a mile away. Ho hum.

Yeah, that's gotta be frustrating.

 

[Joey D]

Well its high to us, we aren't used to gas prices being well above 2 bucks. When you are used to something for so long change is hard to accept. I remember when I got my license I paid something like 1.05 per gallon.

Plus would you like me to walk to work? I work a long way from my home (bout 20 miles one way if I'm going to Warren), and if you tell me I should move closer or get a different job I'll just laugh. Plus I just drive a lot, I do running around for my parent (still), and there are just places I need to go.

Righty... so you put 16.33 American gallons into your truck. A US gallon is 7/8ths of a UK gallon, so that's 14.29 UK gallons. There are 4.544 litres in a UK gallon, so that's 64.93 litres - lets say 65. At the nearest petrol station to me, it costs 88p for a litre. £0.88 x 65 = £57.20. In US dollars, that'd be $100.56.

You spent $40; over here for the same amount of fuel you would've spent $100.

If I lived in England (which I won't ever) I wouldn't own a Blazer that got 14mpg now would I? I would drive something that gets better mileage.

 

[Max_DC]

oh a gas thread again... ok let me think I payed 1.65 US DOLLAR for one litre premium gas... a gallon should be 3,8 litres, which makes 6,27 USD ... well I guess I pay even more than in the UK... ok, maybe taht's because of the 100 octan fuel...
oh btw I drive more than 10000 miles a year.... and my car roughly needs 14 litres / 100 km ( 60 miles ) , well that should be 28 mpg ? I don't know I'm too tired to practice maths right now... oh well no... 28 can't be right... must be less.....damn can't be that hard to calculate....oh now I have it... well I drive like 28 km with one gallon and that should be like maybe 20 mpg or so....
oh a6m5 in Japan they also put in the gas fro you at the gas station, and they clean your windows and you don't have to get out of the car, really comfortable... I kind of miss that sometime

 

[Roo]

Well its high to us, we aren't used to gas prices being well above 2 bucks. When you are used to something for so long change is hard to accept. I remember when I got my license I paid something like 1.05 per gallon.

Plus would you like me to walk to work? I work a long way from my home (bout 20 miles one way if I'm going to Warren), and if you tell me I should move closer or get a different job I'll just laugh. Plus I just drive a lot, I do running around for my parent (still), and there are just places I need to go.

I wasn't suggesting that you used your car less, I was mearly trying to demonstrate the price difference in fuel between the UK and US. No offence intended 👍 Same goes for rollazn.

If I lived in England (which I won't ever) I wouldn't own a Blazer that got 14mpg now would I? I would drive something that gets better mileage.

True. People do drive Blazers here though - how they can afford to I've no idea.

 

[Joey D]

True. People do drive Blazers here though - how they can afford to I've no idea.

They can afford it because the Blazers in other parts of the world come with 2.8L V6 which I'm almost certian is the most underpowered engine on the planet.

 

[Roo]

They can afford it because the Blazers in other parts of the world come with 2.8L V6 which I'm almost certian is the most underpowered engine on the planet.

Ah - that'll be it.

 

[a6m5]

oh a6m5 in Japan they also put in the gas fro you at the gas station, and they clean your windows and you don't have to get out of the car, really comfortable... I kind of miss that sometime

You don't have to tell me, Max. They are also super courteous and even bows to you(polite custom in Japan). Considering how much they charge for gas over there, that's the least they could do!

I heard that American gas stations used to be the same way(minus the bowing, I'm sure), very long ago.

 

[Joey D]

There are still stations where guys will come out and fill up your car for you but the gas is 20 cents more. But I like to do it when I'm near the station since it takes me back to the good old days.