Gas prices far below last year
The nationwide average price of self-serve regular gasoline is $1.386, which is 24 cents below last June's average price of $1.629. Gasoline prices have remained almost unchanged since April of this year, when the nationwide average price of gasoline first settled near $1.40 per gallon.
Gas prices are nearly unchanged in most regions since May. Prices declined an average 2.1 cents per gallon in the Midwest to $1.347. In the Southeast prices dropped 2.6 cents to $1.315; in the Great Lakes they were down 2 cents to $1.391; in the and Southwest they fell 1.4 cents to $1.344.
The only region where prices were up is the West where an increase of a penny per gallon brought the price to $1.493.
Nationwide, the price of self-serve, mid-grade averages $1.472, a decrease of 1.5 cents per gallon since last month, but 26 cents less expensive than last year. Self-serve premium averages $1.52 per gallon, down 1.5 cents since mid-May, and 27 cents lower than one year ago.
