Question of the Day - Friday

I heard on the news this morning that gas prices average $2.18 in the U.S. Just wondering, how much it is where you live? Here in the Memphis, TN area, I've seen it as low as $1.99 a gallon up to $2.09 a gallon.

I'm in central Alabama and I paid $2.0599. Why don't they just put $2.06? LOL My son said his gas was always a little cheaper in Nashville, than here. Debbie Milk is 3.59 here

Hey, Deb. Milk here at Walmart Neighborhood is 2.79 a gallon. You're so right about how they price gas. Makes no sense to me. There's probably some crazy explanation that goes back to when gas was first being sold.

currently, the prices are down to about $2.27, last week prices were up to $2.38. I did catch one day this week in Alma, MI at $2.10. I have been racking up the miles lately for work and usually will wait (if I can) til I get to another state to get gas. These prices are really hurting.

I think I heard gas prices are starting to drop. I know what you mean by going to another state to buy gas. Last week, my husband and I were coming home from a trip to Arkansas and saw gas there at one station at 1.94. I can remember when I first starting driving, gas ran about .69 a gallon. And that was in the mid/late 70's when we had our first huge gas increase.

here about an hour north of Philadelphia the cheapest Ive been getting gas is $2.11 but around where I work (about 20 mins w/c traffic to the city) its about $2.25 @ the lowest!! sarah

I live 250 miles south of San Francisco and 250 miles north of Los Angeles...in California's central valley. Gas here is $2.49. The lowest I've seen is $2.43 and the most is $2.57. Terrible huh? Paula

Long Island New York here, and it is anywhere from about 2.33 to 2.49 a Galon here, No wonder Im always broke Lee

In the Albany, NY area, gas ranges anywhere from 2.17 a gallon for the 87 octane stuff to the 2.30-2.40 that Lee mentioned. The good news is that I drive on my way to work past the 2 cheapest competing gas stations, AND one of them participates in Upromise, so that throws a few pennies into my 15 year old's NY529 program college savings plan. Now, the real funny part - there are a lot of dairy farms in the area I grew up in (about an hour north of Utica), so they aren't THAT far away. One of the major milk processing plants is 3-4 miles away in Altamont from where I live now (or it used to be; don't know if it's still there). Milk, however, runs anywhere from 2.47 per gallon (in that neighborhood) at Walmart, to $3 in most of the grocery stores "on sale" to $3.50 at some of the grocery stores. I have seen it as cheap as 1.99 in some of the convenience stores as a "loss leader" to bring people into the store and while they are there, they get gas, etc. Of course it's usually the 2% that's on sale, while the 1% (that we drink now, post-bypass) is usually NOT on sale. The 2% tastes really funny now (lol). At any rate, it's more expensive here for milk, in general, than areas that don't have ANY (or very few) farms nearby. And it's the "dairy stores" such as Byrne Dairy, etc, that have higher prices for the same milk than the places they sell it to (like the convenience stores and Walmart). Go figure ...N