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Average Georgia gas price rises above $2 per gallon

By AccessWDUN Staff
Posted 12:00PM on Monday 4th April 2016 ( 8 years ago )

Both AAA-The Auto Club Group and GasBuddy.com announced this week that the average price of gasoline in Georgia is now above $2 per gallon. 

Both agencies report the price is $2.03 per gallon, up four cents from this time last week.

AAA announced in its weekly prices brief that the national average price of gas has risen 36 of the past 40 days. Nationally, a gallon of regular unleaded is $2.06, up 2 cents from last week, but 34 cents cheaper than a year ago. Despite the rise in price, AAA said more than half of U.S. stations are selling gas for less than $2 per gallon today, while the most common price across the country is $1.999 per gallon.

AAA also released the following information in its weekly price report:

Lower gas prices have helped motivate Americans to drive at record levels.

Gas prices are on the rise, which is a trend drivers see nearly every spring.

GasBuddy surveys 5,883 gas outlets in Georgia on a daily basis and found gasoline prices on April 4 in Georgia have ranged widely over the last five years:

$2.19/g in 2015, $3.47/g in 2014, $3.48/g in 2013, $3.84/g in 2012 and $3.52/g in 2011.

"The end of March last week capped a 30.5 cent per gallon jump in the national retail gasoline price average for the month.  As prices now sit at the highest since November 2015, April brings the final phase of the transition to the more expensive summer-blend gasoline.  Southern California was the first region in the United States to complete the summer-blend switchover on Friday, while the rest of the United States follows suit at the end of the month.  Although gas prices are expected to continue to increase this week, improving refinery utilization has helped cool March’s feverish rise,” said Will Speer, GasBuddy senior petroleum analyst.

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