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underpants

(187,186 posts)
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 05:32 PM Dec 2021

$2.49 for gas

Filled up the other day. Kroger member discount 60¢ off.
We bought a lot of gift cards for Christmas so that must be it.

I need to start doing what I’ve known other people doing - buy themselves gift cards at Kroger (2-4x in points) for Lowe’s or Amazon etc.

Filled up my 10 gallon tank for less than $25. 👍😀

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$2.49 for gas (Original Post) underpants Dec 2021 OP
$2.99 per gallon in Lafayette, Indiana Emile Dec 2021 #1
Here in rural eastern Ohio gas is $3.18, where the money is in Columbus it is $2.57. nt doc03 Dec 2021 #2
Yep WHITT Dec 2021 #20
I had a .70 discount luckily today randr Dec 2021 #3
Down To $3.089 Here ProfessorGAC Dec 2021 #4
Funny. I looked for that. underpants Dec 2021 #5
Kinda makes me wish I hadn't peeled the one I did a few weeks ago AZSkiffyGeek Dec 2021 #7
Gas At That Station... ProfessorGAC Dec 2021 #16
Wow! I bet lower gas prices is the lead story on all the news shows tonight gratuitous Dec 2021 #6
Nailed it. underpants Dec 2021 #10
They're not lower everywhere durablend Dec 2021 #13
They went with this on CNN this morning: demmiblue Dec 2021 #17
Nope Tree-Hugger Dec 2021 #24
I filled up today for 2.69 calguy Dec 2021 #8
It's been $3.45/gallon for months here (Montana) Rob H. Dec 2021 #9
$3.55+ at many of them here in PA durablend Dec 2021 #14
Thanks, Biden and Obama! madinmaryland Dec 2021 #11
Illinois here...$3.15 is the best I could find. 634-5789 Dec 2021 #12
"Gas prices down. Dems in disarray." - Corporate Repube Media Achilleaze Dec 2021 #15
It's $4.55 in Costa Rica. Lucky you guys!! LakeArenal Dec 2021 #18
Our cheapest stations are down to $2.75 dsc Dec 2021 #19
$3.35 a gallon MontanaMama Dec 2021 #21
The prices listed make me sad, I just paid $4.49 at the cash discount station, North Sierras, CA nt ShazamIam Dec 2021 #22
I get 4% cash back for gas if I use my credit card. So, the higher the price, the more I get back! Midnight Writer Dec 2021 #23

WHITT

(2,868 posts)
20. Yep
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 06:30 PM
Dec 2021

$2.57 at several stations around Columbus. My relatives are hoping it spreads NE.

randr

(12,493 posts)
3. I had a .70 discount luckily today
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 05:38 PM
Dec 2021

My truck holds 36 gal. Last fill up was $111. This one only $84.80

ProfessorGAC

(70,490 posts)
4. Down To $3.089 Here
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 05:43 PM
Dec 2021

At the Circle K in town. Other station are about 7¢ higher.
I have the saver card for K, so I got 6¢ off. Paid $3.029.
Where are the morons with their "I did this" stickers now?

AZSkiffyGeek

(12,657 posts)
7. Kinda makes me wish I hadn't peeled the one I did a few weeks ago
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 05:50 PM
Dec 2021

Prices aren't down TOO much yet around me, but they have dropped. I think I filled up 3 weeks ago for 4.09 (at an expensive pump due to not planning), and 3.69 this past weekend.

ProfessorGAC

(70,490 posts)
16. Gas At That Station...
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 06:09 PM
Dec 2021

...was $3.619 the Friday before Thanksgiving.
So, basically a 53¢ drop in 38 days.
Faster than I expected.
They're only down around 15¢, on average, nationwide. In Illinois, around 18¢.
Not sure why it's so much more dramatic here.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
6. Wow! I bet lower gas prices is the lead story on all the news shows tonight
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 05:48 PM
Dec 2021

Wait. No, I don't think I will bet on that. Sure, when it was advantageous to stick it to President Biden a couple of weeks ago, every network had a story about high gas prices. And supply chain problems. And the heartbreak of psoriasis. And any other crap they wanted to fling at the President.

Today? Gas prices are back down. Supply chain problems had far less impact than the doom-and-gloomers were predicting. And the Dow closed above 36,000 again today. Whether you agree about how much difference most of this stuff makes to people, these are some of the favored metrics for slagging on President Biden. Now that those metrics are favorable to the administration, the networks are going to have to focus on something else out of the President's control to gripe about.

underpants

(187,186 posts)
10. Nailed it.
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 05:58 PM
Dec 2021

Next: Why hasn’t Biden explained how HE would handle the comet in Don’t Look Down!?!?!

durablend

(8,013 posts)
13. They're not lower everywhere
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 06:04 PM
Dec 2021

A good chunk of the northeast never saw any of those reductions and I'm seeing the few that did lower theirs around here are starting to creep up again.

Not trying to pin this on Biden (because there really isn't that much he can do about it) but don't put that blanket "look at those lower prices" statements out there and expect no pushback.

Tree-Hugger

(3,379 posts)
24. Nope
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 06:59 PM
Dec 2021

Our local news this evening had a dire warning that gas prices will sooooaaaarrr to $4.00/gallon by the Summer.

Rob H.

(5,587 posts)
9. It's been $3.45/gallon for months here (Montana)
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 05:52 PM
Dec 2021

We never saw the drop in prices that the rest of the nation did--it's still $3.32 at Sam's, even.

durablend

(8,013 posts)
14. $3.55+ at many of them here in PA
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 06:05 PM
Dec 2021

For the most part the only ones that lowered theirs any were the warehouse clubs and Walmart. Even places like Sheetz and Wawa that you'd think would drop mostly didn't budge more than a few cents, if at all.

edit: and it's not the gas taxes causing it....plenty of states with 10-20 cent lower taxes went down 50 cents or more.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
15. "Gas prices down. Dems in disarray." - Corporate Repube Media
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 06:07 PM
Dec 2021

Screw the blow dry blowhards of repube-owned corporate media. t

dsc

(52,685 posts)
19. Our cheapest stations are down to $2.75
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 06:25 PM
Dec 2021

what is weird is that the relationship of the prices has changed. On my trip to Ohio the cheapest gas has always been in Virginia on 77. That is no longer the case, both Ohio and my local prices were better. Dayton was in the low $2.80s while VA was just under 3.

ShazamIam

(2,723 posts)
22. The prices listed make me sad, I just paid $4.49 at the cash discount station, North Sierras, CA nt
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 06:46 PM
Dec 2021

Midnight Writer

(23,101 posts)
23. I get 4% cash back for gas if I use my credit card. So, the higher the price, the more I get back!
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 06:50 PM
Dec 2021

Yoo-hoo! Can't beat a deal like that!

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