{"id":200085,"date":"2025-12-01T21:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=200085"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:33:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:33:39","slug":"gas-prices-fall-sharply-since-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/12\/01\/gas-prices-fall-sharply-since-last-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices fall sharply since last month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the holiday season now underway, there\u2019s good news \u2013 at least for now \u2013 at gas pumps locally and statewide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Average gasoline prices in Ohio have fallen 21.4 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.63 per gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 5,345 stations in Ohio. Prices in Ohio are 29.7 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 37.1 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. Pump prices have fallen 50.4 cents per gallon over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Gas at Murphy USA was $2.51 per gallon on Monday. Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The national average price of diesel has decreased 5.5 cents compared to a week ago and stands at $3.722 per gallon.
 
According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Ohio was priced at $1.94 per gallon, while the most expensive was $3.49 per gallon, a difference of $1.55 a gallon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The national average price of gasoline has fallen 8.5 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.95 per gallon on Monday. The national average is down 6.9 cents per gallon from a month ago and stands 5.4 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

\u201cNearly every state saw average gas prices fall heading into Thanksgiving, with the national average dipping below $3 per gallon for several consecutive days\u2014falling to $2.95\/gal over the weekend, the lowest level since May 2021,\u201d said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy. \u201cWith refinery maintenance largely complete and OPEC increasing oil production for December, oil prices have struggled. Combine those factors and you have a solid recipe for continued downward pressure on gas prices in the weeks ahead. A few dozen stations are already offering gas under $2 per gallon, and we could see that number grow as we move further into the holiday season. It couldn\u2019t come at a better time for Americans\u2014with relief arriving just as the holidays kick off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Historical gasoline prices in Ohio and the national average going back ten years:
December 1, 2024: $3.00\/g (U.S. Average: $3.00\/g)
December 1, 2023: $2.95\/g (U.S. Average: $3.25\/g)
December 1, 2022: $3.31\/g (U.S. Average: $3.42\/g)
December 1, 2021: $3.16\/g (U.S. Average: $3.37\/g)
December 1, 2020: $2.03\/g (U.S. Average: $2.15\/g)
December 1, 2019: $2.60\/g (U.S. Average: $2.60\/g)
December 1, 2018: $2.14\/g (U.S. Average: $2.44\/g)
December 1, 2017: $2.34\/g (U.S. Average: $2.48\/g)
December 1, 2016: $2.19\/g (U.S. Average: $2.16\/g)
December 1, 2015: $1.80\/g (U.S. Average: $2.03\/g)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VW independent staff\/submitted information With the holiday season now underway, there\u2019s good news \u2013 at least for now \u2013 at gas pumps locally and statewide. Average gasoline prices in Ohio have fallen 21.4 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.63 per gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 5,345 stations in Ohio. […]<\/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-200085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 01:25:50","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\/200085","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=200085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200088,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200085\/revisions\/200088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}