Average retail gasoline prices in Minnesota have fallen 6.2 cents in the past week, averaging $3.53 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 4 cents per gallon in the last week to to $3.58, according to gasoline price website MinnesotaGasPrices.com.
Including the change in gas prices in Minnesota during the past week, prices Sunday were 24.5 cents per gallon lower compared to the same day one year ago and are 9.3 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has decreased 9.3 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 32.8 cents per gallon lower than this day one year ago.
“Americans are spending $108 million less on gasoline every day than they were a year ago,” said GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan. “Prices in nearly all metropolitian statistical areas are lower today than a year ago. In all, 300 metropolitan statistical areas saw cheaper first quarter prices for gasoline than in 2012, with two MSAs showing no statistically significant change. More expensive markets in 2013 included locations in Vermont, New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. The most expensive market in the country was the Honolulu area, but the outright price of $4.15 per gallon this year was just 3 cents per gallon above the 2012 number,” 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.
