If you've been checking prices at the pumps around town, you may have noticed a drop at stations in some areas and hikes at others. The cheapest gasoline Fox59 found was at the Phillips 66 at 2210 Kentucky Avenue Monday. It was priced at just $3.28 a gallon compared to almost $3.65 at other stations. 

“I live on the other side of town, up north, so I drove all the way down here to get it,"  Jerry Poindexter said. 

He owns a tree cutting business and said he has to fill up almost daily.

Another motorist, Cliff O’Dell, said he is looking for work and doing a lot of driving to and from interviews.

"It's definitely worth it to get the 20 or 30 cents cheaper than what it is up in Greenwood and Indy.  It's definitely a lot cheaper,"  he said.

Actually, you don't have to go that far to find more expensive fuel. The Marathon station on Harding is charging $3.65 for regular unleaded. That's 32 cents a gallon more. 

Allan Fitzsimonds said he's using Indygasprices.com to locate the best value. 

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"The next ones I found were Speedway over on Emerson and 465.  That's the best one I've found so far,"  he said.

And he's right. Similarly priced vendors tend to clump. For example,  you’ll find low prices at a bunch of stations on the south east side at $3.33 a gallon off Emerson. You can also do well on the west side on Rockville Road. Head to the northeast side, though, and suddenly prices jump 30 or more cents. Gurmeet Singh owns a station off Franklin Road.

"You've probably done the math,” I asked him.  “If you were to lower the price, say a nickle, or even 10 cents, you'd lose that money per customer, but you might get a lot more customers, no?”  
“Yeah, you're right on that,” he answered.  “But I'm going to go with the people.  I don't like to lower it down and put everyone else in trouble. It's like this guy be doing something so I just follow everybody else."

In other words, everybody else in the neighborhood is charging $3.65, so if Singh were to cut his rate, he could start a price war and upset his fellow station owners.

That gas discrepency could mean big bucks for Hoosiers like Cliff O'Dell. He drives an SUV that gets 15 miles per gallon. If he puts 15,000 miles on his truck this year and he said he probably will, that's a thousand gallons of gas. A difference of 32 cents a gallon would mean paying $320 more or less, depending on where he fills up.