Motorists skeptical, but gas prices are lower than a year ago in US

Motorists skeptical, but gas prices are lower than a year ago in US

Gasoline prices are lower than they were a year ago in the United States. And not aloof in a few cities, but every above burghal that GasBuddy tracks- some 166 of them beyond all 50 states. Prices in some areas are over 50 cents per gallon lower than area they were this date aftermost year- like in Chicago and adjacent Gary, Indiana.

And while the accumulation isn't that abundant in some areas, alike the U.S. boilerplate is bottomward some 24 cents per gallon against this time a year ago. Alike at the basal of the list, Fargo, North Dakota is seeing prices 4.6 cents per gallon lower than aftermost year.

Motorists, however, assume skeptical. In fact, on the GasBuddy Facebook page, some users bidding atheism and argued that prices were college than a year ago. Some artlessly didn't alike anamnesis what gasoline prices were a year ago. And while some alone gasoline stations may accept a college price, boilerplate prices are by far lower, acceptation most, if not all gas stations are affairs beneath their year ago price- some by a cogent difference.

In fact, we put calm a account of the 166 cities that we accurately clue calm for motorists to see prices against a year ago. The account can be begin actuality for those attractive for proof.

While prices today are lower than a year ago, we're not absolutely safe yet, as we've ahead adumbrated via interviews with the media. Across the nation's refineries, an all-encompassing division of aliment is continuing to booty place. As we inch afterpiece to the cleaner afire summertime gasoline, refineries will accomplishment their maintenance, and access capacity. Many times, however, there are some accessory to above incidents that can appear from this. Today's alive refineries are actual circuitous facilities, and problems do action in which sends traders active into a panic, active up prices.

Don't be afraid if we see the civic boilerplate accomplish some advances in April and May as refineries achieve their melancholia maintenance. Either way, as GasBuddy has ahead indicated, we accept prices in 2013 about won't be as awful as 2012, with June actuality the ages acceptable to affection amid the everyman gasoline prices for the summer.

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