{"id":195544,"date":"2025-08-04T21:17:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=195544"},"modified":"2025-08-05T21:23:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:23:34","slug":"weekly-survey-shows-gas-prices-rose-statewide-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/08\/04\/weekly-survey-shows-gas-prices-rose-statewide-locally\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey shows gas prices up statewide, locally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Average gasoline prices in Ohio have risen 7.7 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.15 per gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy&#8217;s survey of 5,345 stations in Ohio. Prices in Ohio are 29.7 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 28.3 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has decreased 0.1 cents in the last week and stands at $3.708 per gallon.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gasoline-price-artwork-7-2013-e1754446985331.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40738\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Ohio was priced at $2.32 per gallon on Monday, while the most expensive was $4.49 per gallon, a notable difference of $2.17 per gallon. Locally, pump prices rose sharply late last week, going from the $2.80 range to as much as $3.29 per gallon. As of Monday night, prices for self-serve unleaded in Van Wert ranged from $3.11 to $3.29 per gallon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The national average is up 1.3 cents per gallon from a month ago and stands 32.8 cents per gallon lower than a year ago, according to GasBuddy data compiled from more than 11 million weekly price reports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile price cycling led gas prices in some states to see double-digit increases or decreases, most saw only modest fluctuations,&#8221; said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy. With OPEC+ now fully restoring production to 2023 levels, oil prices may continue to face headwinds, potentially paving the way for a decline in gas prices.&#8221; <\/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>August 4, 2024: $3.43\/g (U.S. Average: $3.44\/g)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>August 4, 2023: $3.44\/g (U.S. Average: $3.81\/g)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>August 4, 2022: $3.80\/g (U.S. Average: $4.09\/g)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>August 4, 2021: $3.09\/g (U.S. Average: $3.19\/g)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>August 4, 2020: $2.08\/g (U.S. Average: $2.18\/g)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>August 4, 2019: $2.75\/g (U.S. Average: $2.70\/g)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>August 4, 2018: $2.79\/g (U.S. Average: $2.86\/g)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>August 4, 2017: $2.27\/g (U.S. Average: $2.34\/g)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>August 4, 2016: $2.15\/g (U.S. Average: $2.12\/g)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>August 4, 2015: $2.29\/g (U.S. Average: $2.64\/g)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information Average gasoline prices in Ohio have risen 7.7 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.15 per gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy&#8217;s survey of 5,345 stations in Ohio. Prices in Ohio are 29.7 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 28.3 cents per gallon lower than [&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-195544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 03:29:40","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\/195544","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=195544"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195594,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195544\/revisions\/195594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}