Premium vs regular costs in your area
 

Here in SE Michigan it's generally .80 cents a gal.
I kinda think it's a rip off.

I used to live in SE Michigan and never saw it that big of a difference, that's nuts. Here it was $1.81 / $2.01 a gallon for 87 / 93 yesterday.

i dont remember wat the regular's price was but 93 octane in my area varies from 2.89 to 3.19... i think. i dont really check the price as its not like i have a choice not to fuel. lol

Yeah, 5/6 yrs. ago it was only .20 cents , then bam! .80 cents
I'll always use prem. But l know when l'm being ripped off.
Yesterday $2.19 reg. $2.99 prem.

Generally, there's a ten-cent spread from 87 to 89, and the same from 89 to 93.

Mine right now is 1.99 / 2.19 / 2.39 (87/89/93)

While the gas prices were so high, the price difference was generally 30 cents between regular and premium at the most reasonably priced stations around here. As soon as the gas prices dropped, the spread increased to 40 cents at roughly the same time at those stations.

I typically see Premium (93 oct) gas priced $0.30-$0.60 above Regular (87 oct). That is for name brand gas stations in town. On the road, especially in the boonies, I see all sorts of crazy pricing for Premium.

It depends on the brand. Shell-BP stations have a 75c spread. The rest are at 30-50c spread. I avoid Shell and BP stations.

you guys complain too much.

91 octane here is ~1.20 / L (in Canadian) and 87 ~ 1/L or about 3.60/gal(USD) v 3/gal for you guys.

at one point I was over 1.50/L... do I care about gas price? don't buy a sports car if you need to penny pinch gas. go get a prius.

It use to be base, then +10 cents each grade up. I've noticed the spread going up a lot now as well. Think it's about 40 cents here.

In CA, average .20-24 per gallon from 87 to 91. Yes, 91 is the best we have...

In Atlanta it's anywhere from .40 to .80 difference. It really depends on what part of town you are in. In the city it's always .70 to .80, in the burbs it runs the gambit.

in CA all we get is 91...as a kid back east we could go to Sunoco and dial in whatever octane we wanted, think it went up to 100, do they still have Sunoco gas back east?

I wonder how much tax the EPA puts on the higher octane stuff.

We still have Sunoco in Mich. When l was a kid in the 60s/70s Sunoco had the dial your octane on the pump too!
190 octane =economy
200 = reg.
210, 220, 230 = mid.
240,= prem.
250, 260 high octane & it was blue & smelled great

40 or 50 or some places 60 cent difference in ct. used to be only 20 or so. now our gas is going up again because they are switching to a "summer blend". what a rip off.

Jeez, I hadn't paid much attention, but I just filled up, and regular was 2.19 and 93 octane was 3.15. This was at a Shell station outside of the city. Of course everything in Illinois is totally screwed up.

:iagree:

if it's $5 you don't have a choice if you want to drive your car you're going to have to pay lol
it depends on the state tax and it typically goes up every few years
in atlanta the tax is 20 cents so from 87 to 89 is a 20 cent and then from 89 to 93 is another 20 cent difference. anything higher than that is the pump themselves charging more.

60-70 cent difference. I remember when it was only a 10-11 cent difference between the octanes

On the Kansas side of the KC area (how's that for confusing :p) it's .20 between regular and mid grade, then .20 to 91 octane premium. That's at QuikTrip. We have a few BP stations around, but I don't get gas there for a couple of reasons, they don't sell enough premium and the stations are run by some sketchy characters.

I haven't looked at the price of gas in 15 years (or food). I heard it was high a few years back.

93 was about .50 a gallon more than 89 a couple weeks ago. West MI.

93 was 60c > regular at two different Shell stations here today.

Seems as though the spread is sometimes as little as 50c, but I couldn't swear to it as I no longer pay attention to what regular costs.