What are South Bend gas prices ?

[fstst56]

Gas here in the St Louis area is around $4.00
The news is reporting that Chicago has the highest gas prices in the Nation at $5.00
What is gas going for in SB ?

[2R5]

My friend in Niles told me last night that he paid $4.29 for gas yesterday.

[Michidan]

Yea, southern Michigan is pretty much 4.29 everywhere. Indiana however may be cheaper.

[railway]

Down in Portland In. I paid $4.28 at wallmart. Not discounted.

[Welcome]

Gas here in the St Louis area is around $4.00<<<

Take your pick...

http://www.southbendgasprices.com/

[PlainBrownR2]

Out here by Aurora I stopped at Speedway for coffee, whose prices were 4.45 yesterday.

[BobPalma]

Out here by Aurora I stopped at Speedway for coffee, whose prices were 4.45 yesterday.

'Way too much, John. Get the Senior Coffee at McDonald's for about 50 cents. <GGG> BP

[PlainBrownR2]

You know I get the same rhetoric when we go to McD's on the weekends for lunch. Get the McD's coffee rather than stopping at the gas station on the way back because it's much cheaper. I know to the rest of the world it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but I've been doing it that way since leaving NIU in 2005. Plus it gives me an excuse to grab a pop and I like to make it at the counter .

There is an upside in that it beats the expensive road tar coming from Starbucks. I swear that stuff can sprout its own legs and walk off it's that strong .

Edit:

Oh sorry, now I get joke, and I revealed a related quirk or vice of mine, lol. . I like to stop for coffee at the gas station here, and while I was filling my cup, I looked up yesterday and saw that gas was $4.45/gallon. I about dropped my cup too when I saw the 30 cent jump from just last week when I was getting coffee at the same station . We use the collar counties out here as a barometer, because the further into Chicago you go, the higher the price gets, so if it's 5.00/gallon, I wouldn't be too surprised. Consequently, when we leave, we'll probably be filling up before we come back on Saturday .

[AKAchamptrucking]

Too dayam high!

[Tom Bredehoft]

I won't make it to South Bend this year, I'll be in York, Pa, instead, where gas is $3.85 per gallon. Too bad I can only take 16 gallons.

[JBOYLE]

Why so high...too near Chicago?

[PlainBrownR2]

The reasoning here could fall under a few different categories:

Collar county around Chicago(the counties that border Cook County).
Near a major metropolitan area around Chicago. Fuel also goes up the closer it is to the interstate. There's none that are real close, so it's probably just the former.
Around an active, busy metropolitan area around Chicago. The closer you get to the Lakeshore, the higher the price goes.

It's N. Illinois, this isn't unusual in this state or around this area to have it that high.
Chicago and IL combined are pretty hard up on tacking on fuel surcharges. This is one of the major primary reasons why we get stuck with higher gas prices.

We are going into the (name the season, holiday, etc) so fuel goes up.
Fuel price increases in IL when we switch from summer to winter or winter to summer blends for the E10.
Reward for getting Bin Laden(I like this one), with a bonus of the turmoil in Libya still hanging in the air, so there's turmoil in the Middle East, lol.

The irony is the Speedway has usually been one of the cheaper stations here between the Shell(s) on the north and south side of town, and the BP on the north side of town. It's giving me reason to use my seldom used Rewards card, which will discount the fuel with the points I have on it. In the past 10 years, when the price spiked, we usually were near the top in the US when it came to getting shafted on fuel, so this behavior on the price of fuel isn't THAT uncommon. Now I know some of you outside the US call this mindless complaining since 6.00 dollar for a gallon of gas is common, but with many of us here, a commute of 40 miles or more, with many an 18 year old making in the neighborhood of 8.00/hr, it's just covering the expenses here in many cases. So I'll complain if I wanna complain, lol.....

I went back earlier tonight, and it came down to 4.39/gal.....woohoo??

So far I have been able to dodge the fuel prices. I don't take the Lark out much since it doesn't have alot of fuel, we aren't rolling in dough, and the need to drive is absolutely necessary. The '55 though, I had to get that fuel injection in order ASAP in this instance, since getting the tune was starting to get expensive because it required running the engine quite a bit. Waste not, want not, ya know .......

[michaelb]

Columbia Basin -Kennnewick Wa 3.95 a gallon

[Welcome]

UPDATE:
(as of 9:24 am, Thursday)

Gas could be bought for only $4.18/9 at the gas station just north of the "Host Hotel" in South Bend.

[dictator27]

Gas price here is $1.41/litre which translates to $5.34/US gallon or $6.40/Imperial gallon. Forty cents of the price per litre is tax. Road tax, transit tax , provincial tax and carbon tax. British Columbia is the only jurisdiction in North America which has a carbon tax.

http://www.sbr.gov.bc.ca/documents_library/shared_documents/Carbon_Tax_Rates_by_Fuel_Type_from_Jan_2010.pdf

I would love to be paying the prices you are.

Terry