Where's the cheapest gas?
Gas prices are plummeting nicely, just in time for the holidays. So the money you'd normally spend to drive over rivers and through woods to see Granma can be spent on something more satisfying than the end-of-year bonus of some oil-company's CEO. To save as much on gas as you can, click on over to a terrific website called www.phillygasprices.com, a pro-consumer site that provides the name and location of stations selling the lowest (and highest) priced regular gasoline in Philly region.
Gas prices are plummeting nicely, just in time for the holidays. So the money you'd normally spend to drive over rivers and through woods to see Granma can be spent on something more satisfying than the end-of-year bonus of some oil-company's CEO.
To save as much on gas as you can, click on over to a terrific site called phillygasprices.com, a pro-consumer site that provides the name and location of stations selling the lowest (and highest) priced regular gasoline in Philly region.
Right now, for example, the site reports that the cheapest gas to be found is at the Gulf station on Cowpath Rd in Lansdale, where a gallon goes for $1.77. The priciest, at a bloated $2.65 per gallon, is at the Gulf station at Standbridge and Sterigere Sts. in Norristown.
Yowza - what a stretch!
"We're hoping to steer consumers to the cheapest gas prices as a way to force competitors to keep own prices low," said website co-founder Jason Toews, who also co-founded its "umbrella" site, www.gasbuddy.com, which tracks gas prices throughout the United States.
The site is extremely user-friendly and chock full of info that actually manages to make gas-buying interesting. I used the site to calculate Philly gas prices for my recent blog posts about the gas surcharge that Philly cab riders have been paying since June (and which will be lifted come Dec. 1st).
UPDATE 11/26: Here's Philly.Com's gas page, which pulls in widgets from gasbuddy and phillygasprices.