Average retail gasoline prices in Minnesota have fallen 11.1 cents in the past week, averaging $3.49 per gallon Thursday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 2,856 gas outlets in Minnesota. This compares with the national average that has fallen 2.1 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.57 per gallon, according to gasoline price website MinnesotaGasPrices.com.
Prices in International Falls Sunday ranged from $3.67 to $3.69 per gallon, according to the website.
Including the change in gas prices in Minnesota during the past week, prices Sunday were 7.5 cents per gallon lower compared to the same day one year ago and are 60 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has decreased 9.5 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 12 cents per gallon higher than this day one year ago.
“Relief continues to show up at pumps in the Great Lakes, while the opposite trend has started in California,” said GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan. “Gasoline prices are certainly a bit wacky right now across the country with prices moving in difference directions, but from what we saw in the last few days with oil prices, I’m hopeful that most areas of the United States will see new or continued relief for at least the first half of this week, with some areas seeing a continued drop for most of this week,” 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.
