ECON The average price of regular gas has climbed to $4.55 per gallon - 5/20/2026

We’re at 5 bucks per here in the Mat-Su valley. Diesel is over $6. The rapid rise is astonishing as we were headed down below $4 just a few weeks ago, what on earth….
 
we're in emporia VA now enroute to tybee island GA. Gas in CT,NJ and Delaware was well over four bucks a gallon. Prices on the eastern shore of MD and VA were also over four bucks a gallon with diesel above 6 dollars at some stations. Paid 495 per gallon for ethanol free once I crossed the line into VA. Noticed that gas in emporia right off of interstate 95 is 395/399 a gallon. diesel still around 6 bucks. We'll see what it is in NC and SC on the way down today.

Next weeks return should be interesting.
 
Funny this thread popped up; I was looking at my gas preps this morning (I label EVERY detail), $2.69/gal one year ago.
Lucky to find gas for under $4/gal in Colorado now. Most of the time I'm paying $4.25 or more.
This is going to cost the Repubs some midterm election seats.
ETA: I should note the prices referenced is for ethanol-free, which is always a little more expensive.
 
Greensboro area of NC price per gallon

Gas is $3.89 to $3.99
Diesel is $5.89 to $6.29

Might be going up more. I have noticed that some lubricating oils have almost doubled in price over the last year.
 
It's at 3.80 a gallon in my area of NC, northwestern foothills, I filled up my F150 this morning from about a quarter of a tank cost me 65 bucks, I was having ugly thoughts about oil companies on the drive home. Thankfully I'm retired that ought to last me a month or so no more than I have to drive it.
 
I was wrong; it is actually about 8.76 per gallon (in US Dollars). There's a cool conversion chart here:
This was diesel; I can check regular gasoline later

Petrol (aka gasoline) was 10 dollars a gallon during the last economic/oil crisis, I think around 2008 (but I could be wrong).

I am pretty sure I did a post here on how to live with $10-a-gallon gasoline, and our driving distances here in rural Ireland are almost identical to what we had to drive when I was a teenager in rural California. In both cases about seven to twelve miles to get to most shopping places or a preferred gas station.

Los Osos, California, to either San Luis Obispo or Morro Bay, and from Shinrone, Ireland, to some parts of Roscrea, Birr, or Nenagh.

Basically, try to do all your shopping in one trip (we tend to do that anyway) and make as few trips as possible. Sometimes combine things like medical appointments with shopping.

When I wrote the original post, we had NO public transport here in rural Ireland (and there was none in Los Osos when I was growing up on the Central Coast either; I don't count the school bus - I rode that 45 minutes each way from Los Osos to Morro Bay).

Interestingly enough, both in Los Osos and here in Shinrone, my home was and is almost exactly two miles from the tiny village center with the shops. Though I no longer find it amusing to ride my horse to the village at almost 70, as I did when I was about 12.

We do have some public transit here now (and they probably have some in Los Osos, I don't know), but my housemate still has to drive me to a bus stop because I can't walk the two miles. However, because I'm legally disabled, I get a free travel pass during non-peak hours, so it is still a good cost savings if I have a doctor's appointment or something.
 
Paying under $4/gallon in Tampa.

Honest question. Are fuel taxes pennies on each dollar or a percentage of sale?
 
The cheapest I've seen along our trip from CT to Tybee Island GA was 3.89 off of some of the exits along I-95 in South Carolina. Diesel has been consistently well above 6 bucks a gallon, although I did see a few prices right at 599 a gallon. Non Ethanol, was 495 a gallon (and I have to tell ya, the Kia Telluride we're driving LOVES the non ethanol stuff, my range increased a hundred miles a tankful on it and I wish we had it in CT).
 
Paid $5.74 for diesel at Sam’s in Colorado Springs. However my cost per mile went down since my diesel made 3 miles per gallon better than normal. It does that every now and then. Driving conditions change.
 
do you think the cost to produce the gas in your vehicle is composed of the cost to produce Iranian oil
 
Kathy in FL said:
Paying under $4/gallon in Tampa.

Honest question. Are fuel taxes pennies on each dollar or a percentage of sale?
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Not quite an answer to your question, but in Ireland, yes, the taxes are now a huge problem for the government.

They are supposed to go up in October- carbon taxes, you know- and the population is in near revolt about it.

There was a headline on my phone this morning that fuel prices are 50 percent higher than they were in July!

That could be heating oil, gasoline, or diesel; even all three.

But I can predict with no psychic ability that the mass protests against the water charges a few years ago (they were dropped) will pale by comparison to what starts happening if we have a severe Winter, and people can't afford to heat their homes, and people in the government-approved all-electric ones are forced back into public heat shelters and hotels.
 
The obama admin did some study and found that around 5 a gallon was the most they could squeeze without people going ape sht..and it seems we keep hitting that ceiling give or take
 
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