It’s now up to the White House whether an EPA recommendation to expand sales of higher-ethanol gasoline in some Midwestern states will be adopted. The Environmental Protection Agency proposed the expansion of E15 or gasoline with 15% ethanol in March. It suggests year-round sales of the gasoline in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, …
The good old days of lower gasoline prices. As I recalled the cheap gas I paid as a teenager in Kansas in the 1960s, when Art Soukup at the local Skelly station came out and cleaned your windshield and $1 would let you drive all night around town, I wondered how prices today compared …
Excluding old St. Nick who will travel untold millions of miles on Christmas Eve, AAA predicts 115.2 million travelers will head 50 miles or more from home over the approaching Christmas holiday travel period. It represents a 2.2% increase over last year and is also the second highest year-end travel forecasst since 2000 when …
Oklahoma transportation officials are taking a long, hard look at possibly eliminating taxes paid by drivers at the gas pump and replacing it with a user fee—one charged on the amount of miles driven by motorists in the state. It’s an idea that is growing around the nation as more electric vehicles take to …
The nation’s gasoline prices hit an eleven month low this week, falling to a national average of $3.16 as of Saturday morning, while Oklahoma’s average is $2.71 per gallon. But some Oklahoma City gas stations offered the fuel at $2.19 per gallon. AAA analysts say it is possible that the national average could fall …
Last week, AAA raised the question…”Is it the end of the road for falling gas prices?” Oklahoma drivers might be asking the same question. Prices fell nationally only two cents in the last week of November and the automobile association said the primary “culprit is the cost of oil” which is creeping closer to …
Congresswoman Stephanie Bice points out that gasoline prices are $1 higher per gallon than when President Biden took office and that’s why, she says, Bidenomics isn’t working. The Republican Representative says during Biden’s time in office, prices have risen across the board…canned cranberries during Thanksgiving were up 60%, frozen vegetables up about 11%, uncooked …
AAA estimates that more than 480,000 Oklahomans will be among the 55.4 million Americans who will travel 50 miles or more away from home over the long 2023 Thanksgiving holiday weekend, an increase of 1.1% compared to the 2022 Oklahoma Thanksgiving travel volume. 2023 Projected Thanksgiving Holiday Travelers – Oklahoma NUMBER OF TRAVELERS Total …
Gasoline prices are as low as $2.17 in parts of Oklahoma this week while in other areas of the state, prices are on 14 cents away from $4 a gallon. If you plan on traveling by car for the approaching Thanksgiving holiday, that’s a good thing. AAA and GasBuddy report prices continued to fall …
More crude oil production but less gasoline consumption. The coming year is likely to see increased crude oil production in the U.S. because of production cuts made by Saudi Arabia and Russia. So predicts the U.S. Energy Information Administration which forecast 2024 will also result in the lowest gasoline consumption in this country in …
