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Originally Posted by tturedraider
I’m guessing this must have mostly been in Cali. I started a thread similar to this a couple of years ago and it went completely off the rails with people concerned I was complaining about having to buy premium gas for my car. Generally in Chicago proper premium is $1 higher than regular and sometimes slightly more than $1 higher. In the suburbs the spread may be slightly less. I remember well in Texas when there was only a 20 cent premium for premium. Then it started growing, but the biggest spread I remember from back then was about 40 or 50 cents. Back when I posted my thread the price difference had rather suddenly increased to between 80 cents and $1. Since then it has stayed steady at a $1 difference. I now buy at Costco and the savings is generally between 80 cents and $1 over regular gas stations. The last couple of times it has been a $1 difference.
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Actually Calif is so shockingly high I didn’t notice the spread there. AZ on I40 just coming into the state from CA was really high. The recent one I posted was in Richmond, KY. Once I started looking, I’ve seen wide spreads in many places - and narrow ones as well. Which is why I asked if widening spreads is becoming “normal”.