{"id":89575,"date":"2017-06-28T07:54:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T12:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=89575"},"modified":"2017-06-29T08:03:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:03:52","slug":"u-s-gasoline-prices-could-be-lower-july-4-than-january-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/06\/28\/u-s-gasoline-prices-could-be-lower-july-4-than-january-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices: Lower July 4 than January 1?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

American motorists taking to the road for the July 4 holiday weekend will be benefitting from the lowest Independence Day gas prices since 2005, paying an average of $2.21 per gallon, well under the 10-year average of $3.14, according to GasBuddy.<\/p>\n

\"\"Although average gas prices are at historic lows, the price variance — \u201cspread\u201d in industry parlance — in gas prices in any given city on July 4 will be at historic highs, according to GasBuddy. This means there is a higher chance consumers will overpay at the pump over the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n

SUV drivers can save, on average, $11 per fill-up by stopping at the favorable end of the price spread, while smaller cars can save $6. The spread between the nation\u2019s lowest and highest priced gas stations today stands at $1.29 per gallon, sharply higher than the 10-year average of 98 cents per gallon for this time of year.<\/p>\n

Among gas stations in the same state, the spread stands at 51 cents per gallon.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s thrilling to see gas prices falling just in time for the most-traveled summer holiday,\u201d said Patrick DeHaan, GasBuddy senior petroleum analyst. \u201cPerhaps we can finally get rid of the myth that gas prices go up for the holiday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost importantly, motorists are getting a well-deserved break at the pump after years of high summer gas prices,\u201d DeHaan added. \u201cThis is like Christmas in July, instead of seeing fireworks at the pumps like we saw just a few short years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

While gasoline prices have fallen to new seasonal lows just ahead of July 4, that\u2019s not the only record to talk about: for the first time in GasBuddy\u2019s 17-year history of tracking fuel prices, the national average gas price is poised to be lower on July 4 than it was on New Year\u2019s Day by 12 cents.<\/p>\n

Over the last decade, the national average has been as much as $1.04 per gallon higher on July 4 than New Year\u2019s Day, while the average year sees prices 47 cents higher on the holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/submitted information American motorists taking to the road for the July 4 holiday weekend will be benefitting from the lowest Independence Day gas prices since 2005, paying an average of $2.21 per gallon, well under the 10-year average of $3.14, according to GasBuddy. Although average gas prices are at historic lows, the price variance […]<\/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-89575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 10:29:30","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\/89575","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=89575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}