Georgia gasoline highest-priced in the lower 48.

[deckeda]

Acording to gasbuddy.com, http://www.gasbuddy.com/GB_Price_List.aspx

Here's the ATL metro area map: http://www.ajccars.com/articles/gas-prices.html

Hurricanes+higher state taxes on gas are the recipe.

Supply is sketchy in some parts, although most of Georgia is OK. In my area, many stations are still out of gas. Nobody seems to have 93 octane. One popular QT that has been out all week had gas for a day. Then, a nearby BP that's been out all week had gas and folks were lined up 10 cars deep in each lane on Sunday night, waiting for $4.14 regular. Most places that have gas aren't that high however.

[dmann]

Look which city is next. I have no idea how they compile this data, but when I left Chicago yesterday, I paid $4.19 in one of the suburbs. In the city, it was $4.29 for regular.

I am in Cincinnati now and I saw it for $3.80 last night.

DM

[graylocks]

i sure hope this clears up by the middle of next week when i have to drive to Pensacola. a news report Monday said the supply problem might be better by Friday.

[Will Collier]

graylocks wrote:
i sure hope this clears up by the middle of next week when i have to drive to Pensacola. a news report Monday said the supply problem might be better by Friday.

I was in Alabama Saturday, and it's apparently less of a problem there. Prices are slightly lower (I filled up at $3.85), and I didn't see any stations that were out of gas. Saw plenty of those on the way out of Atlanta Saturday and driving to work today (Cobb County), though.

[rgG]

Most stations have been out here in Milton/Alpharetta since Friday. Some have gotten shipments, but then they sell out as soon as people know they have gas. I have also heard that things should be better by this weekend. I certainly hope so.

[rz]

It's payback for all the years that Georgians have had cheaper gas. I've been living in Florida for the last 14 years, and every year at Christmas we drive up north to visit family. Gas was always a good 15 to 20 cents a gallon cheaper in Georgia.

[graylocks]

rz wrote:
It's payback for all the years that Georgians have had cheaper gas. I've been living in Florida for the last 14 years, and every year at Christmas we drive up north to visit family. Gas was always a good 15 to 20 cents a gallon cheaper in Georgia.

cheaper gas than whom? i travel a lot; missouri wins for the cheapest state gas price my driving takes me to. sounds like you're pissed at georgia when perhaps you should direct your ire to your own state and local officials. that's where mine goes whenever i consider Missouri.

[DaviDC.]

Back in the good old days I always filled up in GA on my way from Birmingham to Chattanooga because gas was so much less than in TN or AL. Guess those days are long gone.

[Will Collier]

graylocks wrote:
[quote=rz]
It's payback for all the years that Georgians have had cheaper gas. I've been living in Florida for the last 14 years, and every year at Christmas we drive up north to visit family. Gas was always a good 15 to 20 cents a gallon cheaper in Georgia.

cheaper gas than whom? i travel a lot; missouri wins for the cheapest state gas price my driving takes me to. sounds like you're pissed at georgia when perhaps you should direct your ire to your own state and local officials. that's where mine goes whenever i consider Missouri.
It was certainly cheaper here than in Florida for many years. I used to "commute" to Atlanta from northwest Florida on the weekends (1999-2000 or so), and Atlanta consistently had the cheapest gas of anywhere I passed through. I still fondly recall finding $0.78 unleaded at a QT up around Fulton Industrial about the time I moved here for good (2001).

Not the case any more, though. The ATL gas stations decided price wars were for saps about the time of Katrina, and we've been on the high side ever since.

[The UnDoug]

I paid $3.28 on Sunday in south Jersey. That was a cash price--it was $3.36 for credit cards. AND, they pumped it for me!