Lowest Prices for Gas in Your Area
The Department of Energy has put together a site to help you find the lowest gas prices in your area. Click on your state and you’re given links to sites that help you find the lowest-priced gas. Also, see how local prices compare with the rest of the nation and how much you’re paying in taxes. Click here.
posted by M Clark at 5/03/2006 09:44:00 AM
5 Comments:
Here is the actual link: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/gasprices/states/
Rising gas prices have hardly done anything to erode demand, which is why oil companies can charge so much. No, they're not gouging you. They're simply responding to continued consumer demand in light of wider circumstances. Of course, it's those who live at the margins (i.e., the poor) who are most adversely affected.
While cars are only a fraction of total fuel consumption, those who drive the highest-consuming vehicles (i.e., trucks, SUVs, minivans) could, conceivably, have an impact on demand if they were to cut back. I've been riding my bicycle to campus a lot in an attempt to do this, though our Saturn gets pretty good mileage.
So, we all might consider cutting back on fuel consumption, if not for the sake of our own pocketbooks, at least potentially for the sake of those who are less fortunate.
It's true that fuel consumption by cars (and trucks) are "only a fraction" of our nation's total consumption, but that fraction is not at all insignificant. Most estimates I've seen put it at 40% or higher.
how about cutting back on consumption for the sake of environmental health??
couple of things:
1) fueleconomy.gov links to
Gas Buddy -
thought i'd save you guys a click...
2) another piece of the high price puzzle is the demand for plastic,
another petrochemical product...
Which also serves to make the
"paper or plastic?" question
an environmental Hobson's choice.
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