Nashville area is right around that nat'l avg, having collapsed by over 20 cents in a week. The state is all over the map (pun intended) as I wrote a couple of days ago during a drive cross-state.

I scored some premium for $2.319 Wednesday evening; they were selling the low-suds stuff for around $2.10. Lowest I've seen here has been $2.03ish.

I'm going to take a risk and report a sighting of $2.189 here in Coweta last night. The two usual suspects for low-price regular had been caught flat-footed by a third, more-than-occasional-but-no-longer-usual suspect.

As for the onetime low-proce leader by the interstate, they were lagging on the price drops for a while but the slightly-more-expensive station across the road has been nipping at their heels and lately they've been comparable with the usuals.

Meanwhile, a station with a car wash has a "with car wash" price of under $2.10, according to my wife.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if some people are semi-boycotting until the "one" appears left of the decimal point.

In Iowa, mid-grade is actually cheaper than regular. It has 10% ethanol in it. I was up there a couple of weeks ago, and I filled up with mid grade the whole time. It was great.

An Iowan chiming in here -- that Lawler price is low even for us. We've been running arount $2.09 to $2.14 a gallon, which is a vast improvement over even six weeks ago.

Yup. Paid $1.969 this morning. My wife and I were trying to remember the last time it was below $2.
If this keeps up I may be able to start buying medium-grade again.

Yay!

I didn't see any gas that cheap on my recent drive through Iowa. The cheapest that I found on the entire journey was $2.05 west of St. Louis.

Who'da thunk we'd be all excited about $1.96 gasoline??? Back in the Pleistocene Era (sometime around 1977, I think, I was paying 33 cents or so a gallon. My '71 Super Beetle could fill up for $3.30. My kids just roll their eyes when I mention that.

The current MSN screen shows $1.819 at Spring Valley, Minnesota.

All the Iowa stuff is padded liberally with ethanol.

Probably Minnesota's, too. (I bought some 90-10 last time I was up there.)

1.99 at 7-11 (NW 50th & Portland, OKC) ... Where was that 1.96?

:)

Yeah, I remember buying gas as cheap as $.29 a gallon. Of course that was back when I was earning $90 a week.

Here around Milwaukee regular ranges around $2.35 to $2.39 a gallon. One block away from the Illinois state line, where the competition has less tax in their price, I saw $2.29. Wouldn't be surprised if they were violating Wisconsin's minimum markup law.

As for that ethanol cut, with a job wherein we fill the tank every day and sometimes drive outside the formulated zone, we confirmed a 5% increase in fuel economy if the gasoline hasn't been stepped on.

The Oklahoman didn't say where they got the photo, and I don't recognize the streetscape (what little there is of it).

As I understand it, ethanol has lower energy density but higher octane, so I suspect one's results may be at least somewhat contingent upon the engine computer's expectation. I don't have enough experience with the stuff myself, but I didn't see any decline in mileage during my Midwestern trip, two years and one car ago.