GAS WAR IN SOUTH JERSEY!

Remember the good old days of gas price wars? Apparently, they're back in the South Jersey town of Bridgeton.

Two competing stations, Garden State Fuel and Major Gas, are the lowest-priced gas stations in the state, according to the website New Jersey Gas Prices. As of this evening, the Major station was pumping unleaded regular at $2.289 a gallon - now far below the price of gas just before Hurricane Katrina hit in the last week of August. (Prices in the Toms River area are now in the $2.61-2.70 range, still above pre-Katrina levels.) Garden State Fuel, at last count, was a cent above Major's low-water mark, $2.299. The whole Bridgeton-Millville area in a relatively sleepy part of South Jersey boasts the lowest gas prices in the entire state.

Be interesting to see where this one goes, particularly amid reports that the price of gas is going up on a national basis.

Update: A third station, Coastal Mart, on the same street, has also joined the fray. As of 10/9, all three stations pump regular gas at $2.289.