I paid $1.79 here in Seattle last week and am so glad I drive a small car...My next car will be a hybrid!

$1.49 in Kansas suburbs of Kansas City, west side of KS/MO border. This is good compared to recent high of $1.69 for regular.

Well Ilisa - this is what we get for living in this area - high prices on everything.

went to the movies this afternoon folks - saw Steve Martin and Queen Lativah in "Bringing Down the House" and I absolutely loved it. Those two will have to get together and make another movie cause they're great togetherand so funny!!

Regular gas in Toronto Ontario to-day is $Cdn 0.72 per litre. Translated, this is just under $US 1.90 per American gallon.

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We paid about $2.25 in San Francisco several days ago. Driving north towards the Sonoma area on Friday night, we paid $2.23, and then passed lots of stations for $2.15 and $2.09. The farther away from SF, the cheaper the gas.

I NEVER EVER thought that I would live to see the day when I thought that $2.09 for regular, was cheap!

Bought gas yesterday in San Jose - $2.33 for Shell 89 octane.

I was in Big Sur California yesterday and saw the highest price I have ever seen in the US $2.90 a gallon!

I live in Switzerland. I pay about $7 a gallon for gas. You all have nothing to complain about...of course we also have a fantastic train system so that makes up for a lot.

Filled up last night... 1.42 a gallon in Sachse, Texas

The cheapest gas I've seen in San Diego is $2.09 a gallon for regular unleaded at Arco.

Saw Safeway gas on newly opened gas station was $2.05, if you have a safeway card you get a .03 per gallon reduction so that makes it $2.02, that was in Granite Bay near Folsom lake in northern CA.

Cicerone, the difference is that a lot of what you pay is tax, which probably helps pay for that rail system. Here in Ca, 36 cents per gallon is tax, the rest goes to the oil companies bottom line. Also, when the cost per barrel is going up, prices at the pump go up immediately. As another poster mentioned, the cost per barrel has been coming down, but the price at the pump hasn't changed. I think we're supposed to be happy that it's not going up more.

I have no objection to paying that much, I think people in the US don't have a firm grasp on what is reality in the rest of the world as far as gas prices. Driving in most every place outside the US is a luxury and not a right or even an expectation, although that is changing in Europe.

You are right that some of the cost goes to subsidize rail transport -- which is why the system is so excllent, so lots of people use it, and so there is less of a need for gas and cars; it's all part of a big circle.

Here in Austin as low as $1.43 for Regular.

Having grown up in Britain, I fully appreciate how much it costs to drive in Europe. However, in the US, outside of several big cities on the East coast and Chicago, driving is not a luxury or a right, it's a necessity of daily life. I believe this is a fact which is not fully understood by most Europeans.The high cost of gas not only affects one's daily commute to work,or the grocery store, it also affects the cost of any products which are transported by truck. This includes most of the food in the US.

WOW THANX ALL. Our trip is not til June but with decent gas prices ($1.50 gal) it takes $45 or so to fill up the van we travel in. Most I ever paid for gas was $2.05 gallon on east end of Long Island NY this was late Sept 2001, just after the attacks. Last summer I paid $0.79 Can. per liter in Toronto, since there are 3.75 liters in a gallon that is pretty steep, but the exchange rate was so good that I felt like my gas, food and lodging were free as $1000 American $$ become $1500 Canadian.