The difference in gas prices between New Jersey and other East Coast states is shocking. While we assume that New Jerseyans pay more for just about everything, we continue to get a bargain on fuel prices.
During our trip south to North Carolina and back over the last week, I was shocked by the prices for a gallon of regular — no price lower than $2.23, with most exceeding $2.30 and the highest price coming in at $2.49.
By way of contrast, I just filled up at the BP station on Route 27 at Allston Road in Kendall Park and paid $2.19.
The absence of gas prices in the N.J. cost-of-living discussion shows how distorted the conversation has become. Consider that, for every dime less we spend per gallon, the average driver is saving $50 a year. That may not offset the higher property taxes we pay, but when combined with other savings — unlike some states, we pay no taxes on food or clothing — and the rather expansive services we receive, can we really say we have it all that bad?
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Hank Kalet 
Thank you, \”citizen\”, for doing your part to keep New Jersey\’s road well maintained.Pay no attention to many of your 219 pennies went in taxes. Just focus on the bargain you got.Some bargain. Pay no attention to the Trenton thugs who robbed the \”road maintenance trust fund\”. Pay no attention to how they continually rip off the tax payer.Do pay attention to the show that entertains you with the vast differences between the R\’s and the D\’s.Rest assured that YOUR politicians and bureaucrats will be enjoying fine retirement with their gold plated pensions and full health care benefits while the serfs labor to pay for them.ARGH!Welcome home to NJ. Missed you!
NJ has lower gas prices than neighboring states and with the ancillary benefit that we don't have to pump our own gas, HOORAY!!!!!! That alone makes NJ worth the price of admission.One time I was in CT & stopped to get gas. First I had to go get in a long line in the convenience store/gas station to prepay for the amount of gas which I had to estimate I would need for a fill up. Then I had to go back to the pump and gas up and then go back inside the store and back in another line to get my change because I overestimated my gas needs. What a farking inconvenience and very time consuming though I do understand that self serve isn't this tortuous in most instances. However on rainy or stormy days it's nice to have someone else pump my gas. CT folks have to pay property taxes on their cars.I sure hope Hank gets paid for all the times he plugs verizonwireless and Quicktime 6.5.
I\’d rather that NJ allow self-service and maybe save us another 20c per gallon! As long as it\’s pay-at-the-pump, that is.
Hey, Frisky, I\’m not into conspiracy theories, but do you REALLY think if the gang in trenton passes \”self-serve\” that there would be ANY reduction in price. Maybe I\’m a cynic, but I\’d bet my \”mad money\” that there\’d be an INCREASE. After all they\’d have to retrofit all those stations with a \”no service\” option. Argh! Maybe I am a cynic! Guess the right politicians haven\’t been bribed … err I mean … had their campaigns contributed to. ARGH!!!
Yeah, I know …
Of course, the gooferment is the font of all evil, corruption and incompetence and the oil companies and the rest of the corporations are innocent, benevolent, benign, altruistic charitable organizations which don\’t pollute and don\’t manipulate prices to their advantage. And if corporations ever do anything wrong, the gooferment made them do it. I think I have the libertarian script down pat.KEEP FULL SERVICE GAS STATIONS IN NJ! Self serve will not lower prices, it\’s an urban myth.
The gooferment IS the font of all bad things because it is built on the premise that it can ENFORCE its will on people. I can\’t FORCE you to do something. Herb can\’t FORCE you to do something. So how is it that the GOOFERMENT on the orders of Herb and I CAN force you to do something?Corporations are the evil creation of the gooferment. Its not that they are all sweetness and light. BUT, (there is always a big butt), they dont have the power to FORCE us to do anything. Unless the evil gooferment FORCES people to use them. It\’s well know that the gooferment is the big polluter. Businesses can be held to account if found to be polluting. It\’s a well know phenom that the regulated capture the regulator by the revolving door. Add in that corporations can make \”campaign contributions\” and it\’s like bribery. And, to certain extent, you\’re correct! Whent he politically connected company does wrong, they find a sympathetic ear in the gooferment to \”forgive\” them.For this you blame the Libertarians?You\’re also right Self=Serve will not lower prices.But you can\’t blame that on Libertarians. In a libertarian paradise, only real people would pay taxes and businesses would not be limited liability corporations. And, there\’d by no Sixteenth, Seventeenth, or other Liberty hostile Amendments. The FDA, BATF, the Federal Education Department, IRS, and such non-sense would be non-existent.Oh yeah, but you\’re happy in this FORCE fiesta we have today!