{"id":80897,"date":"2015-09-02T10:33:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T15:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=80897"},"modified":"2015-09-02T10:33:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T15:33:16","slug":"motorist-paying-less-at-the-pump-this-holiday-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=80897","title":{"rendered":"Motorist paying less at the pump this holiday weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pumpinggas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10014\" alt=\"pumpinggasTHUMB\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pumpinggas-300x242.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a>\u00a0GAITHERSBURG, Md. &#8212; (Sept. 2, 2015) \u2013 Americans hitting the road this weekend stand to see the cheapest Labor Day prices at the pump in over a decade, leading to huge savings- $1.4 billion- over the four day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;August gasoline prices plummeted by 18 cents per gallon, the greatest decrease since 2008, and as a result we have a national average that\u2019s 99 cents lower than a year ago ($2.44 versus $3.43). I\u2019m sure motorists will have plenty of company on the nation\u2019s thoroughfares this weekend,&#8221; said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com.<\/p>\n<p>While motorists enjoy the cheapest Labor Day prices in over a decade, GasBuddy currently identifies as many as 19 states where at least one retail outlet is already selling gas below $2, while South Carolina is the lone state to see an average under that level: $1.995\/gal. Nationally, gas prices stand some 21 cents below where they were just a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, GasBuddy analysts predict nearly 70% of the nation\u2019s gas stations to be priced at under $2.50\/gallon compared to 0% last year (currently 65.9%). A fact that may shock motorists: over the last 14 Labor Day weekends, the holiday itself had the lowest average: $2.744\/gallon, while it was $2.75 for Sunday and $2.751 for Saturday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists in the south will spend the least, with 68.4% of stations in South Carolina at $1.99 or less. Other states that saw plenty of sub $2\/gal gasoline: Alabama: 44.4%, Mississippi: 40.1%, Tennessee: 21.4%, Louisiana: 19.5%, Virginia: 17.8%, Arkansas: 10.4%. Nationally, some 8,060 stations are currently offering gas at $1.99\/gal or lower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0GAITHERSBURG, Md. &#8212; (Sept. 2, 2015) \u2013 Americans hitting the road this weekend stand to see the cheapest Labor Day prices at the pump in over a decade, leading to huge savings- $1.4 billion- over the four day weekend. &#8220;August gasoline prices plummeted by 18 cents per gallon, the greatest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80899,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80897\/revisions\/80899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}