Average retail gasoline prices in Savannah have fallen 3.4 cents a gallon in the past week to $3.23 a gallon on Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 262 gas outlets in Savannah.
The national average has fallen 2.5 cents a gallon in the last week to $3.30, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.
Prices Sunday were 3.2 cents a gallon lower than the same day one year ago and are 9.3 cents a gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has decreased 13.8 cents a gallon during the last month and stands 5.8 cents lower than a year ago.
“We’ve begun to see retail prices eroding at a much faster rate in the last few days across a good portion of the country,” said GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan. “Forty-eight out of 50 states saw average prices decline in the last week, with some of the largest declines in the Midwest, where more and more stations are slipping under the $3 a gallon barrier.
“Motorists should be seeing continued drops in gas prices across much of the United States in the week ahead as gas prices catch up to the recent decrease in crude oil prices.”