{"id":111035,"date":"2018-12-26T09:01:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T14:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=111035"},"modified":"2018-12-26T09:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T14:02:56","slug":"van-wert-gas-prices-all-under-2-a-gallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/12\/26\/van-wert-gas-prices-all-under-2-a-gallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert gas prices all under $2 a gallon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Van Wert gasoline prices were all under $2 a gallon for the first time in more than a year &#8212; and all more than a nickel under the state average. Local residents are now saving a significant amount of money over prices earlier this year that peaked closer to $3 a gallon before dropping in December.<\/p>\n<p>The lowest gasoline price in the city on Wednesday was $1.94 a gallon, with three stations each selling gasoline at that price: the Murphy USA station in the Towne Center shopping center, the Pak-A-Sak Marathon station on South Shannon Street, and the Lassus Handy Dandy station in the 800 block of North Washington Street.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-78995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Gasoline-pump-nozzle-artwork-8-2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" \/>The other Pak-A-Sak Marathon station on North Washington was a penny higher at $1.95 cents a gallon, while the One Stop Shop station in the 200 block of North Washington was at $1.97 a gallon, the Short Stop station on East Main Street was at $1.98 a gallon, and the Brookside Marathon station on West Main Street was at $1.99 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Gasoline prices in Ohio have fallen 5.2 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.06 per gallon on Sunday, according to GasBuddy&#8217;s daily survey of 5,345 stations in Ohio. This compares with the national average, which has fallen 5.9 cents per gallon versus last week to $2.31 per gallon, according to GasBuddy.<\/p>\n<p>Including the change locally during the past week, prices Sunday were 32.3 cents per gallon lower than a year ago and are 21.4 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has dropped 23.1 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 12.2 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gas prices broadly continue to move lower across much of the country as oil prices continue to melt away,&#8221; said Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy. &#8220;Thirty-one states now are seeing at least one price under $2 per gallon while the most common price seen across the land has dropped to $1.99 per gallon, with over a quarter of stations in the U.S. under that psychologically important level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans are spending $225 million less every day on gasoline than they did some 75 days ago,&#8221; DeHaan added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Van Wert gasoline prices were all under $2 a gallon for the first time in more than a year &#8212; and all more than a nickel under the state average. Local residents are now saving a significant amount of money over prices earlier this year that peaked closer to $3 a gallon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 23:46:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}