Gas Prices Across the Map: What RVers Are Paying Right Now

[jymbee]

Brilliant strategist that I am, I decided that we didn't need to gas up as we almost always do before pulling into this park two weeks ago. Now, what with gas prices apparently soaring, filling up our 80 gallon gas tank will take a much bigger bite!

Fortunately on the last legs of our travels this winter but still looking a couple more fill-ups before landing back home.

 

[Oldgator73]

High of $3.49 to low of $2.96

 

[DonTom]

75 cents per KWH to charge my electric motorcycle in Grass Valley, CA today. I think that is the most I ever paid anywhere per KWH. That is probably more expensive than gasoline.

Average Gasoline price here is $4.60 per gallon of 87.

-Don- Auburn, CA

 

[Believer45]

Pump prices I have actually seen in Southwest Ohio
Regular gas $3.199 to 3.599
Diesel $4.199-4.999

Prices reported on Gas Buddy in my neighborhood
Regular $2.999 to 3.519
Diesel $3.699 to $5.499

Prices changed so much March 5 or so that Gas Buddy can't keep up, plus some stations are not updating their manual signs so you pull in for that $3.549 fuel and see the pump charging a price of $4.799 (true deal, happened to me).

Some Gas Buddy updates are not accurate and when I have corrected the pump price a few hours later someone else has relisted a lower price.

Dave / Believer45

 

[rjshiflet]

Of course the prices shoot up just as we are about to embark on a five-day jaunt pulling our fifth wheel to Broken Arrow, OK - then likely venturing into Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas for day-trips. Thankfully I did fuel the F250 up at $2.67 per gallon, but now it's $3.35 per gallon (introductory offer as they just added diesel to their pumps) at our Costco and over a dollar more at our local WalMarts at $4.39. Even "Open Roads" truck stops are running $4.30 and higher. Looking along our route, it appears we'll be approaching the $4.99 mark most of the trip.

I'll top off at Costco today so it's as full as possible. It makes me thankful for that 10-speed transmission that gets us 11-12 mpg pulling our fifth wheel.

 

[Isaac-1]

We had $2.39 gas here on March 1st, by the 4th or 5th it was up to $2.79, and as of yesterday (March 8th) it had hit $2.99

 

[whiteva]

Best price in North Florida is $3.39 gal

 

[Primerump]

knee jerk reaction price here in south Houston is $2.79/gal regular.

I doubt it will go much higher, although refineries have switched to summer blend production and that
compounded with the overreaction to the conflict will keep it high for a while. my oil industry contacts say we have a surplus here and should not be affected as much as the ROW.. we shall see... ?

 

[uchu]

It's only going to go up.

Around $4.12 USD per gallon ($1.40 CAD per litre) here in the Greater Toronto area.

 

[Joezeppy]

Diesel here (central NY) went from $3.99 to $4.99. By chance, I did fill up just before the jump so that should last me about 2 weeks.

 

[UTTransplant]

We paid $4.50 for diesel yesterday in Quartzsite, AZ, but that was without an Open Road discount. Painful, but convenient. It had been around $4.20 advertised price a few days before that. It was more than that at the AZ border, and the trucks were lines up a half mile as we drove by. We are now in CA on our way to Death Valley, and I figure we will fill up again in Nevada. Be interesting to see the prices there.

 

[TheBar]

my oil industry contacts say we have a surplus here and should not be affected as much as the ROW.. we shall see... ?

Remember when the fake news told us the USA is running out of oil? Now we are the world's biggest oil producer? In reality regulations were the only thing causing us to "run out of oil"

As an example of how the fake news could say we are running out of oil, I signed an oil lease in January last year. It was for an exciting horizontal mega well to zig-zag over 3 sections (3 sq miles) of land @ 9k feet deep and potentially produce over 3k barrels per day.

Those 3 sections each have a dozen or more old wells that have been pumped dry. My dad owned several of those wells. These wells were all drilled vertically to hit one pool of oil. Spacing regulations prevented drilling a new well closer than 80 then changed to 40 acres from another well. So dozens of pools of oil couldn't be drilled on all 3 sections. Similar spacing regulations exist in all states. Hence the hype about the US "running out of oil" or oil that was impossible to recover.

Those spacing regulations at least in Oklahoma have been modified to allow more drilling. In addition the drillers on my land filed for and got exceptions to the standard spacings.

Vertical drilling is obsolete. All data used in past oil estimates is garbage because new horizontal drilling can hit dozens of pools with one well.

And as with most oil fields in Oklahoma and Texas the old wells were drilled at 9-10k feet deep. There is another even bigger layer of oil at 14k that is only now being produced. And when those have been pumped dry there is still another even bigger layer at 19k feet. Oil has been hit as deep as 30k feet but is expensive to produce.

Oklahoma is highly underrated as an oil producer. You will see much more drilling in the future with the 1.7 billion untapped reserves there which is actually more than Texas.

But there was such a surplus and prices fell so fast they never drilled on my land. That's never happened before. Then I gave up all hope of drilling when we "acquired" all the Venezuelan oil. Maybe they'll drill now that oil is over $100/bbl?

 

[Professor David]

$3.40 per gallon.

 

[Gary RV_Wizard]

$3.399 here in south Florida. Up 40-50cents in a week.

 

[bob213]

In good ole California where we love to vote for higher prices I'm seeing $4.99 to $5.49 for regular

 

[Kirk]

In Dallas County, TX prices range from about $2.45 to $2.99 and are up an average of 56 cents over 1 week ago.

 

[NY_Dutch]

The discount Gulf station near us went from $2.99 to $3.34 overnight.

 

[Larry N.]

I just saw $3.49 at a couple of stations that last week were at $2.89.

 

[gwinger]

It's only going to go up.

Around $4.12 USD per gallon ($1.40 CAD per litre) here in the Greater Toronto area.

And fast!

 

[TonyL]

It never ceases to amaze me how quick gas stations are at raising prices, but when the price drops there seems to be an oceanful that they bought at the high price to be disposed of first!