Sigh. That’s usually my reaction when I pull up to the gas station pump to fill up my humble little Honda Civic every few days. Commuting 24 miles each way to work, plus the miles I drive for assignments, means my gas tank always seems half empty. Yes, when it comes to my gas tank, my view is pessimistic.
With unrest in the Middle East, hurricanes, refinery troubles, and a host of less obvious factors, gas prices have been on a yo-yo in recent months. While national average gas prices have started to drop in recent days—after hitting record highs for Labor Day weekend—folks in New York are still paying above $4 for a regular gallon of gas.
In the New York metro area, motorists are paying an average of $4.16 a gallon. That’s lower than the $4.22 drivers were paying last week, but still much higher than the $3.91 at the same time last year, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge.
New York joins an unlucky group of six states, Hawaii, California, Connecticut, New York, Alaska, and Illinois, that have averages above the $4, according to our friends at GasBuddy.com.
But before you start grumbling, remember that it could be worse. In San Francisco, folks are paying an average of $4.24/gal. Greenville, South Carolina has the cheapest average: $3.47.
What’s the LOWEST you have paid per gallon recently and where? Let us know in the comment section below.
(Cars travel in front of the Shell gas station at 45 North Highland Avenue in Nyack, August 14, 2012. ( Mark Vergari/The Journal News )
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Mahopac area is the highest in the area. Merchants lose local customers to nearby locales where price is more reasonable. White Plains, where I work, is lower than Putnam towns!
try cash prices at stations on Route 9 in garrison and cold spring.
Peekskill has been steadily rising, but so far 408.9 is the best I’ve seen there this past week. Gas I got in WP last week was 4.15 a gallon!!! Sheesh. As I have to have it pumped, I don’t have a lot of choice where I go…but I would have tried to get home on fumes if I’d seen the sign first.
I was much better off when I was telecommuting twice a week, but office politics put an end to that.
$3.97 cash intersection 9A, & 9, I would have thought we would be driving solar powered cars by now. Maybe the pipe line was not such a bad idea.
$4.15 in Yorktown…. quite high. No end in sight. The plan was for prices to go down after 2 Iraq wars, hmmm never happened. Pro$its became the norm at our expense. If he get a bad winter, we’re in trouble with heating oil this season.
Thanks, everyone, for responding. Do you know anyone who drives a Chevy Bolt? It seems that they have been picking up in popularity…
Loved living in NY but the damn state does nothing but take money Glad I moved to SC prices $3.46 per gallon