It’s a good news-bad news scenario at the pumps, according to GasBuddy, a smartphone app that tracks the price of gasoline.
The good news is gas prices are falling locally, with the cheapest gas in Morgantown at the Circle K at the corner of University Avenue and Jacobs Drive, where gas was selling for $2.56 a gallon on Thursday, GasBuddy said.
By comparison, the cheapest gas in West Virginia can be found at $2.26 a gallon at the Exxon in Lewisburg in Greenbrier County in the southern portion of the state.
Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, said gas prices will continue to vary widely state to state and by location. He also said in most states, gas prices are expected to remain under $3 a gallon for the year.
“Never has there been a bigger opportunity to spend less, or to spend more if you aren’t checking prices before filling up,” De Haan said in a release.
That is the case locally.
Gas was higher at the Sheetz on University Avenue in Star City, which was quoting a price Thursday of $2.69 a gallon, while the GetGo on University Town Centre Drive was selling gas for $2.65 a gallon.
In Marion County, gas was 20 cents cheaper, GasBuddy said. The lowest pump price in Fairmont was $2.44, which can be found at both Circle K stores. And in Bruceto
Mills in Preston County, a gallon of gas could be purchased Thursday for $2.69 at the BFS.
The price for a gallon of gas in West Virginia as a whole was $2.609 a gallon, giving the state the 17th highest gas prices in the country. Gas is 31 cents a gallon higher compared with a year earlier, GasBuddy said.
Maryland was 25th at $2.511, while Pennsylvania, which has the country’s highest gasoline taxes, was selling gas for an average of $2.818 a gallon, the seventh highest in the U.S.
The average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. on Jan. 2 was $2.567, up 32 cents a gallon from a year earlier.
The highest pump prices can be found in Hawaii, where the average price for a gallon of gasoline was $3.776 a gallon. California was second-highest, $3.57 a gallon, while Nevada had the third highest at $3.147 a gallon.
Missouri had the cheapest gas in the country at $2.22 a gallon. Oklahoma was second at $2.25 a gallon and Arkansas third at
$2.28 a gallon.
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