Cross-Country Gasoline Prices -- Nothing About The Bakken -- For The Archives -- August 12, 2020

For the archives, gasoline prices on cross-country trip from Grapevine, TX, to Portland, OR, and then to Flathead Lake, MT, and then return to Grapevine, TX:

Google maps mileage vs actual mileage:

• Grapevine, TX, to Portland, OR: 1,983 miles
• my mileage: 1934 miles
• Portland, OR, to Lakeside, TX: 575 miles
• my mileage: 566 miles
• Lakeside, MT, to Grapevine, TX: 1921 miles via SLC, Albuquerque, Amarillo
• Lakeside, MT, to Grapevine, TX: 1770 miles via Billings, Casper, Denver, Amarillo (bypassing Albuquerque)
• my mileage: 1867 miles (via SLC, Albuquerque)
  

• data points
• location; mileage
• gallons at price/gallon = total paid (numbers often rounded)
• data:
• Grapevine, TX, starting: 0.00
• Roanoake, TX: 43
• 5.0 gallons @$1.88 = $9.37
• Childress, TX: 224.5
• 4.59 @ $1.73 = $7.93
• somewhere in eastern New Mexico, Tucumari: 449
• 6.1@$1.95 = $11.90
• Farmington, NM: 800
• 8.6 @ $2.08 = $17.81
• Green River, UT: 1086
• 6.9 @ $2.40 = $16.45
• Snowville, UT: 1371
• 6.2 @ $2.20 = $13.64
• Baker City, OR: 1726
• 8.4 @ $2.56 = $21.56
• Portland, OR: 1934
• arrival; no gasoline until departure; did not drive car at all while in Portland

 

• data, Portland, OR, to Flathead Lake, MT:
• Portland, OR, starting: 0.00 
• 8.2 @ $2.86 = $23.45
• Ritzville, OR: 278
• 6.6 @ $2.66 = $17.49
• St Regis, MT: 464
• 4.6 @ $2.40 = $11.00
• Lakeside, MT: 566
• arrival: no gasoline until departure; minimal driving while at Lakeside

 

• data, Flathead Lake, MT, return to Grapevine, TX:
• Lakeside, MT: 0.00
• Polson, MT: 44.5
• 4.4 @ $2.26 = $9.98
• Dubois, ID (north of Idaho Falls): 375
• 8.2 @ $2.86 = $23.45
• Tremonton, UT: 562
• 5.2 @ $2.50 = $13.04
• Moab, UT: 871
• 6.7 @ $2.40 = $16.12
• Aztec, NM: 1071
• 4.74 @ $2.08 = $9.86
• Tucamari, NM: 1417
• 8.2 @ $2.05 = $16.72
• somewhere in north Texas, north of DFW: 1611
• 5.2 @ $1.99 = $10.44
• Grapevine, TX: 1867
• 6.6 @ $1.67 = $11.04