So on Wednesday morning, I filled the car with 13 gallons of gas at $2.67 a gallon. By the afternoon, it was $2.89 a gallon. By Friday morning, the same gas station was charging $3.49 a gallon. An $0.82 increase (that’s 30.7%) in 48 hours. That’s an average of 1.7 cents an hour!

Interestingly, the national average price of gasoline is currently $2.867 (See here for the daily average courtesy of the AAA). According to SyracuseGasPrices.com, the average cost of gas is $3.20 here in the area, and $3.30 across the state.
I never understand where the AAA gets its numbers. According to their website, the average price of gas in the Syracuse area is $2.866, and yet at syracusegasprices.com, where people enter in the cheapest gas in the area, not a single station is selling below $2.95. There’s an enormous discrepancy here, either in methodology, or in actual reporting. Are the AAA’s prices current? What’s their sample size? Who are they asking? In any case, I highly recommend syracusegasprices.com, or their parent website, gasbuddy.com.