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The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, August 28,2019, Page 5A
Labor Day Gas Prices Lowest in 3 Years; GasBuddy Reveals How
Much “Labor” It Takes to Fill Up the Tank in Each U.S. State
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With Labor Day and
the close to summer
driving season on the
horizon, gasoline prices
this Labor Day are set
to be lower than last
year for everyone, but
some are still putting in
more “labor” to fill their
tanks, according to Gas-
Buddy, the smartphone
app helping consumers
avoid paying full price
for fuel. Price wise, for
Labor Day, GasBud
dy predicts a national
average of $2.55 per
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Amount
of "Labor"
Needed to
Fill Your Car
How many hours
of work per year it
fakes to pay for your
annual gasoline bill
@ GasBuddy
gallon, down
nearly 30
cents from
last year and
the lowest
priced Labor
Day since
2016’s $2.20
per gallon
average.
The nation
al average
gasoline
price on La
bor Day itself will likely
be the third lowest in
the last decade, behind
2015 and 2016’s aver
age of $2.42 and $2.20,
respectively. Gas prices
are likely to face addi
tional headwinds into the
autumn as the transition
back to cheaper winter
gasoline begins in just
two weeks while demand
for gasoline is also set to
begin a seasonal down
turn. By Thanksgiving,
GasBuddy estimates
that as many as 10,000
gas stations, primarily
in Oklahoma, Texas,
Louisiana, South Caro
lina, Alabama, Missis
sippi, Missouri but also
a handful in the Great
Lakes, will drop under
$2 per gallon, barring
any improvement in U.S.
trade relations with Chi
na, a recent major factor
in oil prices.
Meanwhile, a new
GasBuddy study on how
many hours motorists
need to work to pay
their annual gasoline
expenses found that
motorists in Nevada had
to work nearly 108 hours
per year, while those in
Montana worked roughly
a half-hour less (107.4)
and those in Idaho
falling into third place
(107.1) for hours worked,
all well above the U.S.
average of 88.9 hours.
Meanwhile, motorists in
the Northeast region got
off easiest, with those in
Massachusetts working
just 67 hours per year to
pay their yearly gasoline
bill, followed by Con
necticut (70.6 hours) and
Maryland (71.7 hours).
The difference between
the two amounts to
nearly an entire work
week every year. The
West Coast, Rockies and
Southeast all generally
required more labor than
the Northeast, while the
Great Lakes was close to
average.
“While it feels nice to
have seen gas prices fall
so substantially into the
last leg of the summer
driving season, we want
ed to see how motorists
in each state may have
to work more or less
to fill their tanks. This
study was an interest
ing reminder that how
much time one spends to
pay for gasoline var
ies drastically and that
motorists can lessen the
burden by locating low
priced stations,” said
Patrick DeHaan, head
of petroleum analysis at
GasBuddy. “Rural com
munities oftentimes have
wages that are lower
than urban areas, while
also having to commute
longer distances with
little to no mass transit.
The Northeastern U.S.
generally has gas prices
at or slightly higher than
the national average, but
commuters have many
more options than driv
ing their cars, which are
also generally smaller
than the vehicles found
in rural communities.”
Methodology: the
study looked at the latest
state-by-state median
wage data available from
the Department of Labor
(May 2018), as well
as data from GasBud-
dy’s payments card to
calculate average yearly
demand by state, using
the average price on re
cord, by state, on August
1, 2019.
GasBuddy’s mission
is to help consumers
avoid paying full price
for fuel. As the lead
ing source for crowd-
sourced, real-time fuel
prices at more than
150,000 gas station con
venience stores in the
U.S., Canada and Aus
tralia, millions of drivers
use the GasBuddy app
and website every day to
find gas station conve
nience stores based on
fuel prices, location and
ratings/reviews. Gas
Buddy’s first-of-its-kind
fuel savings program,
Pay with GasBuddy, has
saved Americans more
than $8 million at the
pumps since its launch
in 2017. The company’s
business solutions suite,
GasBuddy Business
Pages, provides Fuel
Marketers and Retailers
their best opportunity
to maintain their station
information, manage
their brand, and promote
to their target consum
er audience. For more
information, visit http://
www.gasbuddy.com.
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