We enjoy working to predict and further understand the “game” behind gas prices. Further discussion of The Gas Game at GrandRapidsGasPrices.com and GasBuddy.com.

Ed and Patrick have been writing and analyzing gas prices since 2001, and Bill since 2006. Ed has kept a detailed log, while Patrick spent most of his time researching and keeping his predictions semi-private. Around 2003/2004 Patrick became much more active once he had established local trends and once he felt comfortable making predictions. Ed and Patrick are quite active in the “The Gas Game” topic over at GasBuddy.com. Each year a new thread is made where predictions are made. After Patrick started posting there in 2004, he noticed Ed posting there as well, with a significant interest in gas prices and the game that accompanies the fluctuations in local prices. In August 2006, TheGasGame.com was born as a result of the local discussion of gas prices. It should be noted that “The Gas Game” was a name that Ed called his daily monitoring since around 2002. After the domain name was acquired, Patrick and Ed decided to team up to offer locals and those in nearby states more insight into how gas prices work. In May of 2009, Patrick accepted a position with GasBuddy, a consumer oriented gas price organization as Senior Petroleum Analyst. Around the same time, TheGasGame.com added a new author- Bill Eby! Bill first started getting curious about gas prices after finding GasBuddy and began to play and predict the game, much like Patrick and Ed. Enjoy the work that Ed and Bill have put into their “hobby” of watching gas prices!

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About Ed:

  • I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Grand Valley State University. My graduate work was done in the area of ordinary differential equations, with applications to biology and chemistry. Since graduating, my scholarly work has focused on wavelets and Fourier analysis, along with collegiate mathematics education.
  • I started thinking about gas prices in 1999, after seeing the seemingly random price hikes in Standale, where I used to live. By 2001, after collecting daily data and experimenting with some formulas, I started to understand why price hikes occur when they do. I began to try to time my fill-ups with when I thought price hikes would occur. In 2002, I wrote an essay on the subject that appeared in The Grand Rapids Press, and I started the original Gas Game web site where I posted regular predictions. By 2006, I had appeared several times on the local TV news, and now I have joined with Patrick to post gas price commentary and predictions at thegasgame.com.

About Bill:

  • Bill grew up in Northern Indiana in Plymouth. This is a stone’s throw to Michigan 30 miles south of South Bend/Niles. Work, school and love drew him south to Indianapolis, where he currently lives. Bill met his wife, who is from the Netherlands, while attending Ball State in 2000-2002. He has been with her for almost 9 years, and married for 4 of those years. Their first child is due in October.
  • Bill is a frugal man at heart. He drives a 1997 Saturn because it was cheap to buy and cheap to run. Buying gas a cheap as possible is just another way for him to be frugal. He also love statistics, which grew out of a love of numbers and sport. Spreadsheets are his forte, and he could play with them for hours. He started seriously in the prognostication of gas prices in November 2007. Since then he has grown in experience, something he hope to use to your advantage here on this site.