{"id":173845,"date":"2023-12-19T04:54:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T09:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=173845"},"modified":"2023-12-19T04:59:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T09:59:06","slug":"gas-prices-falling-ahead-of-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/12\/19\/gas-prices-falling-ahead-of-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices falling ahead of the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the start of the year-end holiday travel season just a few days away, average gasoline prices in Ohio have fallen 12.3 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.69 per gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy&#8217;s survey of 5,345 stations in Ohio. Prices in Ohio are 43.6 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 20.2 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has fallen 9.2 cents in the last week and stands at $3.99 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=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Lassus-Handy-Dandy-12-18-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-173846\"\/><figcaption>Self-serve regular unleaded at Lassus Handy Dandy in Van Wert was well below the state average Monday night. <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 $2.19 per gallon on Monday, while the most expensive was $3.79. In Van Wert, several stations were charging $2.49 per gallon Monday night. Tyler&#8217;s Short Stop matched the state average at $2.69.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The national average price of gasoline has fallen 8.6 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.03 a gallon. The national average is down 26.9 cents per gallon from a month ago and stands 6.8 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;As the nation&#8217;s average price of gasoline has fallen for the 13th straight week, we&#8217;re on the cusp of potentially seeing a $2.99 per gallon average for the first time in years, most welcome just in time for the Christmas holiday,&#8221; said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy. &#8220;While the declines may soon come to an end as the price of oil has rebounded from recent lows, we could see a gentler 2024 at the pump for motorists. Gasoline could see its average fall below $3 this week while the price of diesel has just fallen below $4 for the first time since July, also very welcome news for the economy as nearly all goods are impacted by the price of diesel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Historical gasoline prices in Ohio and the national average going back ten years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>December 18, 2022: $2.89\/g (U.S. Average: $3.09\/g)<br>December 18, 2021: $3.04\/g (U.S. Average: $3.31\/g)<br>December 18, 2020: $2.10\/g (U.S. Average: $2.22\/g)<br>December 18, 2019: $2.52\/g (U.S. Average: $2.56\/g)<br>December 18, 2018: $2.17\/g (U.S. Average: $2.37\/g)<br>December 18, 2017: $2.25\/g (U.S. Average: $2.41\/g)<br>December 18, 2016: $2.29\/g (U.S. Average: $2.24\/g)<br>December 18, 2015: $1.84\/g (U.S. Average: $2.00\/g)<br>December 18, 2014: $2.30\/g (U.S. Average: $2.46\/g)<br>December 18, 2013: $3.08\/g (U.S. Average: $3.20\/g)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information With the start of the year-end holiday travel season just a few days away, average gasoline prices in Ohio have fallen 12.3 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.69 per gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy&#8217;s survey of 5,345 stations in Ohio. Prices in Ohio are 43.6 cents per [&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-173845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 08:30:19","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\/173845","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=173845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173859,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173845\/revisions\/173859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}