{"id":36109,"date":"2013-03-15T05:38:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T10:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=36109"},"modified":"2013-03-15T05:38:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T10:38:52","slug":"gasoline-prices-lower-than-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/03\/15\/gasoline-prices-lower-than-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Gasoline prices lower than in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Information submitted<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO &#8212; What do New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle and Miami gasoline price averages all have in common?<\/p>\n<p>In each respective market today\u2019s average is lower than its price point from one year ago, with Chicago an impressive 29 cents lower than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MGN Online graphic\" rel=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Gasoline-price-graphic-8-2012.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Gasoline-price-graphic-8-2012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28382\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Gasoline-price-graphic-8-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>Overall, the national average had fallen for 12 straight days before rising on February 11. The national average now stands at $3.67 per gallon, its lowest level since its peak, to date, at $3.79 per gallon on February 27.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s going on?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now motorists may be pleasantly surprised with the direction gasoline prices are taking and it\u2019s due largely to timing; the more costly summer-blend gasoline is not yet available in most markets and there\u2019s also a bit of a \u2018fire sale\u2019 &#8212; consumers get some relief from refinery efforts to unload their remaining \u2018winter-blend\u2019 gasoline inventory,\u201d said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy. \u201cBut, these are not the days of wine and roses\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still believe that another upward trend in retail gasoline prices is a strong possibility, coinciding with the full implementation of summer blend gasoline, and it will arrive in April,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterestingly enough, while three states (Hawaii, California and Alaska) still see prices over $4 per gallon, 45 states now have lower prices today than a year ago, and Illinois has the greatest year-over-year discount with its average price down by 22 cents per gallon,\u201d said Gregg Laskoski, another senior petroleum analyst with GasBuddy. \u201cColorado is one of just five states seeing a higher average today than last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more-->About GasBuddy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GasBuddy operates over 250 similar websites that track gasoline prices at over 140,000 gasoline stations in the United States and Canada. In addition, GasBuddy offers a free smart phone app which has been downloaded over 25 million times to help motorists find the lowest gasoline prices in their area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information submitted CHICAGO &#8212; What do New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle and Miami gasoline price averages all have in common? In each respective market today\u2019s average is lower than its price point from one year ago, with Chicago an impressive 29 cents lower than a year ago. Overall, the national average had fallen for [&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-36109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 22:00:57","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\/36109","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=36109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}