Average retail gasoline prices in Minnesota have fallen 15.1 cents in the past week, averaging $3.03 per gallon Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 2,856 gas outlets in Minnesota. This compares with the national average that has decreased 8 cents in the last week to $3.25 per gallon, according to gasoline price website MinnesotaGasPrices.com.
Prices in International Falls Sunday ranged from $3.23 to $3.29 per gallon, according to the website.
Including the change in gas prices in Minnesota during the past week, prices Sunday were 15.7 cents per gallon lower compared to the same day one year ago and are 19.4 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has decreased 18.3 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 1.3 cents per gallon higher than this day one year ago.
“The drop in gas prices certainly has been well noted — in some instances people have been calling this a gas price crash. Dub it whatever you like, but I’ll remind motorists: gasoline prices in some areas still could set all-time record highs for Christmas Day,” said GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan. “While it is excellent that gasoline prices have dropped, I’m not on board with this being called a gas price crash. Call me a grinch, call me a realist, but at the end of the day, data doesn’t lie — and that data shows that gasoline prices are still clinging near all time highs for today’s date,” DeHaan said.
GasBuddy operates MinnesotaGasPrices.com and over 250 similar websites that track gasoline prices at more than 140,000 gasoline stations in the United States and Canada.
