Gasoline

Is gasoline less expensive in Iowa or Wisconsin?

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Gas price Rock Island.
Gas price St Cloud.

robby wrote:

Is gasoline less expensive in Iowa or Wisconsin?

In Iowa gasoline prices now vary more than a dollar per gallon from city to city. I don’t think one can accurately compare state to state, Personally I would check city to city.

In Marion, IA, gas is $3.12 a gallon, actually filled up for $2.92 a gallon in Tama, IA a couple days ago. Went to SW Wisconsin this weekend and noticed that gas was still hovering around $3.69. It’s weird, seems like a town five miles away could have gas 40 cents a gallon cheaper.

Hastings MN is under $3

Cheaper by my cabin in NW wisconsin. Has been all summer.

Steven Krapfl wrote:

actually filled up for $2.92 a gallon in Tama, IA

Four hours ago it was $2.59 in Tama, Iowa.
$3.60 in Shell Rock Iowa today right now.

In general Iowa is cheaper than MN., WI., and Il. But watch the alcohol content. Can be 15% rather than 10%. Also heard Iowa allows there to be a higher amount than advertised without penalty. Not sure if that’s true or not. This last year, gas could be nearly a dollar less crossing the Mississippi from Illinois to Iowa.

Iowa has been the dumping grounds for chit gas and diesel since the sixties period.
Drive across the border into MN or Wis and fill up and get at least 6 more mpg.
339 in kellogg for corngas today.

Iowaboy1 wrote:

Iowa has been the dumping grounds for chit gas and diesel since the sixties period.
Drive across the border into MN or Wis and fill up and get at least 6 more mpg.
339 in kellogg for corngas today.

I never did the leg work to know if this was true or not, but had heard the same. I had relatives that lived in the Lancaster/Platteville WI area that always swore gasoline in nearby Iowa was worse and refused to use it with it having fewer regulations or transparency related to ethanol content.

buckybadger wrote:

I never did the leg work to know if this was true or not, but had heard the same. I had relatives that lived in the Lancaster/Platteville WI area that always swore gasoline in nearby Iowa was worse and refused to use it with it having fewer regulations or transparency related to ethanol content.

We drove from St Cloud to Houston, TX in July. The best MPG we got was on MN fuel. Worst was Iowa, but all the other states were a good 2 to 3 MPG lower than Our first tank from MN gas.

Thank you all!

I saw 2.99 in Hastings the other day and 3.80 everywhere else around me.

buckybadger wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>iowaboy1 wrote:</div>
Iowa has been the dumping grounds for chit gas and diesel since the sixties period.
Drive across the border into MN or Wis and fill up and get at least 6 more mpg.
339 in kellogg for corngas today.

I never did the leg work to know if this was true or not, but had heard the same. I had relatives that lived in the Lancaster/Platteville WI area that always swore gasoline in nearby Iowa was worse and refused to use it with it having fewer regulations or transparency related to ethanol content.

I live 15 miles from Dubuque Iowa. Get there at least every other week and NEVER bought gas there in 54 years of driving vehicles. Iowa was a dumping ground for poor fuel that would not pass WI fuel inspections. This is a fact heard from the state inspectors themselves.

Thanks all!