{"id":94546,"date":"2017-10-23T07:05:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T12:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=94546"},"modified":"2017-10-23T07:05:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T12:05:24","slug":"ohio-gasoline-prices-decrease-for-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/10\/23\/ohio-gasoline-prices-decrease-for-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio gasoline prices decrease for week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Average retail gasoline prices in Ohio have fallen 5.5 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.32 per gallon on Sunday, according to GasBuddy&#8217;s daily survey of 5,345 gas outlets in Ohio. This compares with the national average, which has fallen 1.6 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.44 per gallon, according to gasoline price website\u00a0<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=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/>Including the change in gas prices in Ohio during the past week, prices Sunday were 29.7 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and 2.8 cents per gallon higher than a month ago. The national average has decreased 12 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 22.2 cents per gallon higher than this day one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The national average gas price is lower for the sixth straight week, the longest such decline since the summer of 2016,&#8221; said Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy. &#8220;Perhaps even more wild is that the national average has now remained under $3 per gallon for nearly 3 years, or 1,087 days as the days of cheap oil have continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile recent actions from OPEC may cause oil prices to hold above the key $50 per barrel level, there is no threat of a quick return to the $3 per gallon days,\u201d DeHaan added. \u201cIn fact, the national average may continue to decline for a few weeks before leveling off as gasoline inventories continue to heal after Harvey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe future isn&#8217;t all roses, however &#8212; some areas of the Midwest have seen prices rise as refineries undergo seasonal maintenance and inventories in the region remain tight, keeping prices elevated,\u201d DeHaan noted. \u201cRegional hotspots like this may continue in the weeks ahead as gas stations come closer to fully passing along lower gas prices after Harvey and now become subject to new factors driving prices up and down.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information Average retail gasoline prices in Ohio have fallen 5.5 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.32 per gallon on Sunday, according to GasBuddy&#8217;s daily survey of 5,345 gas outlets in Ohio. This compares with the national average, which has fallen 1.6 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.44 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-94546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 16:30:34","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\/94546","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=94546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}