Consumers Reap Benefits of Gas Price War

One corridor in Columbia is playing host to a fight Don King would be jealous about.

It's a gas war - a four-way battle to have some of the cheapest gas in the city.

In one corner, City Gas and Sunoco with gas at $3.73 a gallon.

According to one gas customer, that price is "the cheapest around town to me."

But in the other corner is Raceway, with gas at $3.72 a gallon. For another gas customer, it's the cheapest he's seen.

Not so fast, according to Murphy USA Gas in the other corner. With gas at $3.71 and a three cent discount with a Wal-Mart card, the station has some of the cheapest gas in Columbia.

Game, set and match, but the hysteria over cheap gas in the area is so bad that a person was out conducting traffic.