Vermont's gasoline prices have fallen slowly but steadily and a national report suggests prices across the US will continue to fall. Vermont's price per gallon ($3.716 average) is now lower than a week ago, a month ago and a year ago.
The US average retail price of gasoline has fallen below $3.60/gal for the first time since April 10, 2014. Prices have been on an 18 consecutive-day streak where the current price was less than the price from the previous day, and it’s the highest number of consecutive down days since the period between April 4, 2013 and April 19, 2013, when prices fell 11.8cts/ gal from $3.63 to $3.52. The US average, now $3.583/gal., has dropped by 5 cents in the past week.
| Vermont | USA | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Today 7.17.2014 | 3.716 | 3.583 | |
| Yesterday | 3.715 | 3.590 | |
| One Week Ago | 3.737 | 3.633 | |
| One Month Ago | 3.721 | 3.661 | |
| One Year Ago | 3.732 | 3.664 | |
“West Texas Intermediate crude, the benchmark for the US, traded below $100 per barrel today for the first time since April, reflecting a slow but steady decline in recent weeks,” said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy. “Over the same period, we’ve seen wholesale crude prices across the country slip dramatically. West Coast wholesale prices have fallen by more than 35 cents per gallon since the beginning of the month, and across the rest of the country wholesale prices have fallen by 15 to 20 cents per gallon.”
“We’re confident that in coming weeks we’ll see retail prices catch up to the wholesale losses. West Coast consumers will likely see their retail prices slide from 15 to 25 cents per gallon over the next two weeks, and across the rest of the country we can expect prices at the pump to shed from 10 to 20 cents per gallon,” DeHaan said.
GasBuddy has also unveiled a new website for the media (http://media.gasbuddy.com) where one can find live-ticking averages with the latest prices received for over 450 US metros and 100 Canadian cities, as well as national averages and a multitude of other data. Color maps can be created to track prices or changes in price in every US county over selectable time frames, charts comparing prices between areas can be made, with many key statistics on markets updated daily.
CHICAGO (July 15, 2014) – GasBuddy