1.96, but I've passed this place on some errands and it takes fifteen minutes to get gas due to lines, and it's about 20 miles from me. Four of the top six are within one mile, how about that, as well as two of the the highest.
What's cool is that you can enter prices from stations near you and it goes into their database. I love the internet.
One of the most expensive places in the Dallas area is near me. I don't know how that Shell station stays in business. Their prices are always at least 10 cents higher than anywhere else in town. Even if you put all your gas on a Shell card, there's no excuse since there's another Shell station on the same corner that's always cheaper.
Yeah, well why do they have two Starbuck's directly across the street from one another here in Houston? People are lazy. If one is closer/easier to get to, they pick that one whatever the cost.
What's the point of fighting traffic to get to an inconvenient gas station when you may only save 30 cents a fill-up?
I'd save an average of a $1.50 on a fill-up by using the other Shell station in my neighborhood. I don't go to either one of them, though, since the QT down the block is always cheaper and easier for me to get to anyway.
I'm guessing that's the exception, not the rule. Where I live in Houston, it doesn't make a lot of sense to drive around and find the cheapest gas. If I knew of a station that was 10 cents less, maybe I'd go a little bit out of my way to get there, but I'm not sure. As it is, with turning lanes, or lack thereof, if the service station on one side of the road has 3 cents cheaper gas than the one on my side of the road, I'm going to my side. I'll make that 45 cents up somewhere else.
I think so, too. That one Shell station in Plano is the anomoly, being so expensive. Everyone else in the neighborhood is roughly the same price (within a few cents of each other).
