Consumers are still enjoying relatively low gas prices. Mississippi ($2.01), Louisiana ($2.02) and Tennessee ($2.02) are others among the states with the lowest prices.
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The Missouri gas average rose 12.2 cents during the past week to $2.22 per gallon yesterday, according to GasBuddy.com’s survey of almost 4,000 filling stations throughout the state. Idaho’s prices have dropped 30 cents in the last 30 days, while the USA average price has dropped just a nickel over the last month.
Nationally, prices increased an average of 2.7 cents per gallon. But that’s much lower than the price from a year ago, when motorists were paying $3.08. That should push gasoline prices lower, but high summer demand led to a string of refinery problems after the switch.
Green Bay prices are 83.8 cents per gallon less than on the same day one year ago, but 6 cents per gallon more than one month ago.
Total US driving topped 1.82 trillion miles during the first seven months of 2015, topping the previous record of 1.77 trillion set during the first seven months of 2007, U.S. Federal Highway Administration data shows.
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Though Pittsburgh is generally insulated from refinery outages, the price of crude oil accounts for about two-thirds the retail price of a gallon of gasoline.
