Average AZ and Phoenix Gas Prices (car, pay, lowest)

[Colt AZ]

Originally Posted by Ponderosa

It's $2.66 at Samsclub in Avondale which begs the question why it is 30 cents higher everywhere else around there.

I'm wondering if it could be that Top Tier gasoline stations have a higher rate?

[Ponderosa]

Originally Posted by Colt AZ

I'm wondering if it could be that Top Tier gasoline stations have a higher rate?

SamsClub doesn't participate in the Top Tier marketing scheme but Costco does. Their gas is $2.66 as well.

[DetroitN8V]

Originally Posted by Ponderosa

SamsClub doesn't participate in the Top Tier marketing scheme but Costco does. Their gas is $2.66 as well.

Consumer Reports seems to disagree that it’s just a marketing scheme. Why do you think it is?

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-...h-extra-price/

I won’t fill up at Circle K because they’re not Top Tier. It’s too easy to find and I don’t really care about a variance of $0.20 or so per gallon.

[Bondurant]

Originally Posted by goodfellas17

Why are gas prices so high in our area? I just got back from a trip to the midwest and found gas prices between here and there to be between 25 to 50 cents cheaper.

I was in MI from July 21 to August 5. Gas was north of $3 per gallon during most of my stay.

[49erfan916]

I think our gas prices are around the average gas price nationwide. I just came back from California and you want to talk about sticker shock.

[AZDesertBrat]

Originally Posted by goodfellas17

Why are gas prices so high in our area? I just got back from a trip to the midwest and found gas prices between here and there to be between 25 to 50 cents cheaper.

I noticed that too on my road trip to South Dakota. Seems like the average was about $2.60. Here it's been around $2.95 for a while.

[PhoenixSomeday]

Unless your car needs premium. In which case most places I go to are barely $0.30 cheaper than the gas station I filled up at near the last place I lived in back in CA. $3.99 for premium there, vs $3.59 - $3.69 for it here.

I still have never gotten an explanation for why the difference between regular and premium was rarely more than $0.20 in CA everywhere I ever lived, but the difference here in AZ is regularly $0.50 - $0.70.

The only exception I can remember off the top of my head is the Chevron at Kyrene & 202 in Chandler. But I think that one is run by the the Gila River tribe, so maybe that has something to do with the respectable prices for premium. That place is awesome. $3.03 for Chevron premium there vs $3.59 for Chevron premium at Alma School Rd & Germann Rd (and basically every other gas station between home and work).

[Jnvlv247]

Arcos tend to be cheap, Circle K and qT are about the same and Shell and Chevron are always higher than anything around them

It's 2.70s where I am (PHX Children's Hospital area). It in the 2.90s in N Sdale

I think the west valley and maybe the SE valley are the cheaper places. Statewide, I think Tucson is lower and Flagstaff is highest

[Colt AZ]

Originally Posted by Jnvlv247

Arcos tend to be cheap, Circle K and qT are about the same and Shell and Chevron are always higher than anything around them

It's 2.70s where I am (PHX Children's Hospital area). It in the 2.90s in N Sdale

I think the west valley and maybe the SE valley are the cheaper places. Statewide, I think Tucson is lower and Flagstaff is highest

Not sure about statewide at this point, but I did pass through Tucson today and paid $2.49 at a Costco just off of I-10.

[Adamson865]

Yep - $2.49 yesterday at an Arco by my work here in Tucson. Most prices I see right now are around $2.55.

Drove to Sierra Vista over the weekend and everything I saw down there was in the $2.80s or $2.90s.