With the Labor Day weekend behind us, gasoline prices in Oklahoma fell, no, they plunged, in some cases by 15 cents in the past week. The fall left Oklahoma among the lowest in the nation.
AAA reports the state average fell 10 cents from $2.90 a week ago to $2.80 per gallon this week. But the drop in Oklahoma City was even more—15 cents—from $2.95 to this week’s average of $2.80 per gallon.
Tulsa’s average is lower at $2.70 but the drop was only 7 cents in the past week.
Perhaps the bigger story is the anomaly in northwest Oklahoma, where we last reported Woodward County was something of an oasis in a sea of high prices. This week, drivers from adjacent counties might be headed to the city of Woodward to get gasoline for an average of $2.67 per gallon.
Consider this fact—Ellis County to the west has an average of $3.33 per gallon. That’s 66 cents higher than what drivers in Woodward are paying on average.
Other neighboring counties including Woods at $3.20, Harper at $3.05, Alfalfa at $3.19, Dewey at $3.02 and Blaine county at $3.05.
The highest average in the state is Coal county in the southeast where drivers pay $3.34 per gallon. But all they have to do is drop down to Atoka County and pay $2.72 or Bryan County, home to Durant, where the avaerage is $2.64.
Here’s what drivers in surrounding states are paying: Kansas $2.98; Colorado $3.32; New Mexico $3.13; Texas $2.85; Arkansas $2.91; and Missouri $2.94.
States to avoid—if you’re concerned about high gasoline prices:the nation’s top 10 most expensive gasoline markets are Hawaii ($4.66), California ($4.65), Washington ($4.16), Nevada ($3.99), Oregon ($3.76), Alaska ($3.72), Illinois ($3.61), Utah ($3.59), Idaho ($3.58), and Washington, D.C. ($3.55)
The nation’s top 10 least expensive gasoline markets are Mississippi ($2.83), Tennessee ($2.94), Oklahoma ($2.88), Alabama ($2.90), Texas ($2.90), Louisiana ($2.90), South Carolina ($2.93), Arkansas ($2.95), Missouri ($2.98), and Kentucky ($2.99).