For the first time in months, the average price of gasoline fell below $3 a gallon this week in Oklahoma.
Based on information from AAA, the new statewide average is $2.99 a gallon, down four cents from a week ago and 13 cents from a month ago.
AAA reported the national average fell a penny in the past week to $3.44 a gallon.
Tulsa has the lowest metro average at $2.81 per gallon, a dime less than a week ago and and 38 cents cheaper than a month ago.
Oklahoma City’s average dropped four cents in the past week to $3.01 a gallon. A month ago, it was $3.09.
Lawton has an average $3 per gallon, up four cents in the past week.
GasBuddy.com reported the lowest price was $2.62 per gallon in Muskogee.
However, AAA reported southeast Oklahoma’s Coal County is highest at $3.47 per gallon and adjacent Hughes County has an average of $3.32 per gallon.
In the southwest, Greer County has an average of $3.35. But northwest Oklahoma has the largest cluster of high prices—$3.44 in Ellis County, $3.30 in Dewey County, $3.22 in Woods County, $3.20 in Harper and Alfalfa Counties and $3.15 ni Beaver County.
Oklahoma’s new average of $2.99 compared to $3.40 in Colorado, $3.22 n New Mexico, $3.02 in Texas, $3.08 in Arkansas and $3.12 in Missouri.
AAA spokesman Andrew Gross explained that even though Summer is wrapping up soon, gas prices have “barely wobbled.” He said there remains the hurricane season and “it’s too soon to declare that pump prices have started their usual Autumn swoon.”
