GALLERY: The Lowest Gas Price In Eight Broome County Towns

Summer is over and the temperatures are coming down. Do you know what is also coming down? Gas prices. They aren't coming down a lot and NOWHERE NEAR the price from a year ago or the price that we would like them to be at.

The lowest gas prices in our area used to be in Whitney Point. If I knew that I was going that way any time soon, I would let the gas tank get as low as I dared let it go. That changed a few years ago and the prices in that area, I pretty much the same as everywhere else.

So where are the lowest prices in Broome County? I don't really want to say because I go there all the time. If I'm passing through and my tank is under a half, I stop in and fill it up. So if I tell you where it is, then the line will be longer and I'll have to wait and be patient.

In the words of my daughter, Tara, "patience takes too long." She doesn't live by those words but she has said it before. According to Gas Buddy, here are best prices for gas in Broome County.

The Cheapest Gas In Each Broome County Town

Take a look at the cheapest gas prices in each Broome County town. All this information is according to GasBuddy.com as of September 27, 2020. If you don't see your town on this list, it is because the information was not available on GasBuddy.

If you are looking to get depressed with gas prices, check out the price of gas on the year you started driving.

LOOK: See how much gasoline cost the year you started driving

To find out more about how has the price of gas changed throughout the years, Stacker ran the numbers on the cost of a gallon of gasoline for each of the last 84 years. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (released in April 2020), we analyzed the average price for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline from 1976 to 2020 along with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for unleaded regular gasoline from 1937 to 1976, including the absolute and inflation-adjusted prices for each year.

Read on to explore the cost of gas over time and rediscover just how much a gallon was when you first started driving.