Average retail gasoline prices in Minnesota have fallen 5.5 cents in the past week, averaging $2.99 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 0.7 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.24 per gallon, according to gasoline price website MinnesotaGasPrices.com.
Regular gas prices in International Falls, according to the site, ranged from $2.93 to $3.14. Local prices for mid-grade, premium and diesel fuel were not listed on the site.
Including the change in gas prices in Minnesota during the past week, prices Sunday were 20.6 cents per gallon lower compared to the same day one year ago and are 5.9 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has increased 3.9 cents during the last month and stands 10.4 cents per gallon lower than this day one year ago.
“The National Weather Service says this week begins with much of California under a hard freeze warning and separate storm systems tracking across the Great Lakes region and from the Gulf Coast to the northeast, bringing snow, sleet and freezing rain from the Lower Mississippi River Valley northeastward to New England,’ said Gregg Laskoski, senior petroleum analyst, GasBuddy. “Under conditions like that, consumer demand usually declines and that often results in a nominal decrease in retail gas prices. That may be what lies ahead this week.”
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.
