{"id":85938,"date":"2017-04-03T08:17:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=85938"},"modified":"2017-04-03T08:18:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:18:20","slug":"ohio-gas-prices-up-but-less-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/04\/03\/ohio-gas-prices-up-but-less-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices up, but less than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Average retail gasoline prices in Ohio have risen 19.3 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.31 per gallon on Sunday, according to GasBuddy&#8217;s daily survey of 5,345 gas outlets in Ohio. This compares with the national average that has increased 4.3 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.32 per gallon, according to gasoline price website <a href=\"http:\/\/gasbuddy.com\/\">GasBuddy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-28382 size-full\" title=\"MGN Online graphic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Gasoline-price-graphic-8-2012.jpg\" alt=\"Gasoline price graphic 8-2012\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/>Including the change in gas prices in Ohio during the past week, prices Sunday were 31.3 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 6 cents per gallon higher than a month ago. The national average has increased eight-tenths of a cent per gallon during the last month and stands 26.5 cents per gallon higher than this day one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>According to GasBuddy historical data, gasoline prices on April 3 in Ohio have ranged widely over the last five years: $1.99 per gallon in 2016, $2.29 per gallon in 2015, $3.58 per gallon in 2014, $3.63 per gallon in 2013, and $3.81 per gallon in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We long anticipated seeing gasoline prices beginning to rise en masse in the spring, but uncharacteristically, it took until nearly April Fool&#8217;s Day for it to begin,\u201d said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com. \u201cThere&#8217;s no fooling this time &#8212; the rally in prices does seem to be more credible as oil and gasoline markets rebound.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last Wednesday&#8217;s weekly report from the Energy Information Administration provided some energy for the storms to develop at gas pumps, based on a weak showing in crude oil inventories &#8212; barely increasing as supply and demand finally sees more balance, pushing oil prices higher,\u201d DeHaan added. \u201cMotorists should expect to see a more sustained upward trend at the pump through Memorial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information Average retail gasoline prices in Ohio have risen 19.3 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.31 per gallon on Sunday, according to GasBuddy&#8217;s daily survey of 5,345 gas outlets in Ohio. This compares with the national average that has increased 4.3 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.32 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-85938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-05 00:25:07","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\/85938","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=85938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}