On Fri, 14 May 2021 00:05:34 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 5/13/2021 11:51 PM, Jim Joyce wrote:
On Thu, 13 May 2021 18:26:59 -0700 (PDT), Dean Hoffman
wrote:

I just got back from a trip to Illinois. The lowest price I paid for the 10% ethanol blend was $2.70/gallon. That was in Platte City, MO north of Kansas City. The lowest price I noticed along I-70 was $2.75/gallon. I think that was around Oak Grove, MO. It's about a fourth of the way from KC to Columbia.
It seems to be costing about $2.90/gallon in southeast/south central Nebraska.

I use Gas Buddy to check fuel prices, not only for my area but for any area
around the country.

Here's Platte City, MO, for example, still at about $2.70.
https://www.gasbuddy.com/home?search=platte%20city%2C%20mo&fuel=1&maxAge=0& method=

I use the Gas Buddy app on my smartphone, but the web site works, too. The
site and the app are free, and using them to find gas prices is also free.


Do you find any real value to using it?

In my local area? No, not any more, but when we had just moved here it was
interesting to see which stations _consistently_ had cheaper gas. We've
been here two years now, so I know where to go. Even so, I sometimes fire
it up on my phone just out of curiosity.

In my area, any station in 20 miles is within 5 cents.

Checking just now, the spread in my area is 40 cents. That seems to be
pretty typical around here.

On a trip, if you get off the highway and are
willing to travel a few miles you can save 10 cents away from the
interstate.
A typical fill for me is about 15 gallons. How far is it worth
traveling to save 75 cents? I burn 11 cents a mile at current prices.

I agree with you there. If you stop and do the math, a few cents a gallon
aren't going to make a big difference. I wanted to top off the pickup
yesterday so I stopped at one of my main stations. Their credit card
readers were down, so rather than pay cash I went across the street where
gas was 2 cents a gallon higher, $2.65 versus $2.63. I put in 8 gallons, so
the difference was 16 cents.