Texas Retail Gas Prices Sag, El Paso’s Are Cheapest
HOUSTON (AP) – Retail gasoline prices sagged somewhat this week across Texas.
The weekly Triple-A Texas gas price survey released today shows the average price of regular self-serve fell 4 cents this week to $2.94.
That’s still 83 cents more than at this time last year. Nationally, regular self-serve averaged $3.04 per gallon, down 6 cents from last week.
Auto club spokeswoman Rose Rougeau says gas prices now appear unlikely to test the May 23rd record high of $3.09 per gallon — at least in the next few weeks.
She says winter weather usually combines with the lack of holidays to depress gasoline consumption to its lowest levels of the year.
El Paso has the cheapest gas of the 11 Texas cities on the auto club survey list with $2.85 per gallon, down a penny from last week. Texarkana has the most expensive gas at $3.01 per gallon, despite a 4-cent drop from last week.
These are average per-gallon prices of regular, self-serve gasoline in Texas and nationally, as well as the change from last week, according to today’s Triple-A Texas Weekend Gas Watch:
Amarillo — $2.911, down 4.8 cents Austin-San Marcos — $2.962, down 3.2 cents Beaumont — $2.955, down 3.4 cents Corpus Christi — $2.933, down 3.7 cents Dallas — $2.930, down 4.0 cents El Paso — $2.848, down 1.3 cents Fort Worth — $2.925, down 4.3 cents Galveston-Texas City — $2.924, down 3.0 cents Houston — $2.919, down 3.2 cents San Antonio — $2.921, down 3.9 cents Texarkana (Texas only) — $3.011, down 3.6 cents State — $2.940, down 3.6 cents Nationally — $3.044, down 5.6 cents
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