{"id":172043,"date":"2023-10-31T03:39:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T08:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=172043"},"modified":"2023-10-31T09:08:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T14:08:21","slug":"local-gas-prices-below-statewide-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/10\/31\/local-gas-prices-below-statewide-average\/","title":{"rendered":"Local gas prices below statewide average"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Average gasoline prices in Ohio have fallen 9.2 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.15\/g on Monday, according to GasBuddy&#8217;s survey of 5,345 stations in Ohio. Prices in Ohio are 25.3 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 48.9 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has fallen 3.4 cents in the last week and stands at $4.43 per gallon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Gas-prices-10-31-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-172056\"\/><figcaption>Local gas prices, including at Sunoco on N. Washington St., are below the statewide average. <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Ohio was priced at $2.75 per gallon, while the most expensive was $3.99 per gallon, a difference of $1.24 per gallon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Van Wert, gas prices on Monday ranged from $3.04 per gallon at several stations to $3.11 at Brookside on West Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The national average price of gasoline has fallen 5.3 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.45 per gallon on Monday. The national average is down 36.3 cents per gallon from a month ago and stands 27.4 cents per gallon lower than a year ago, according to GasBuddy data compiled from more than 11 million weekly price reports covering over 150,000 gas stations across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For now, I believe we could see a further 10-20 cent drop in the national average in the weeks ahead, but any jolt in the delicate Middle East still holds the potential to disrupt the drop we&#8217;re seeing,\u201d said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Historical gasoline prices in Ohio and the national average going back ten years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>October 30, 2022: $3.64\/g (U.S. Average: $3.72\/g)<br>October 30, 2021: $3.18\/g (U.S. Average: $3.39\/g)<br>October 30, 2020: $2.01\/g (U.S. Average: $2.12\/g)<br>October 30, 2019: $2.57\/g (U.S. Average: $2.61\/g)<br>October 30, 2018: $2.58\/g (U.S. Average: $2.80\/g)<br>October 30, 2017: $2.43\/g (U.S. Average: $2.46\/g)<br>October 30, 2016: $2.04\/g (U.S. Average: $2.20\/g)<br>October 30, 2015: $2.20\/g (U.S. Average: $2.18\/g)<br>October 30, 2014: $2.87\/g (U.S. Average: $3.00\/g)<br>October 30, 2013: $3.24\/g (U.S. Average: $3.26\/g)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information Average gasoline prices in Ohio have fallen 9.2 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.15\/g on Monday, according to GasBuddy&#8217;s survey of 5,345 stations in Ohio. Prices in Ohio are 25.3 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 48.9 cents per gallon lower than a year [&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-172043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 01:06:16","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\/172043","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=172043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172059,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172043\/revisions\/172059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}