COLUMBUS – The threat of Florence may have helped gas prices increase in Columbus for the second week in a row, but drivers have been finding that the retail price of gasoline has been fairly stable since the end of the summer driving season two weeks ago and will be happy to hear that prices will most likely decline.
The average price of a gallon of regular gas in Columbus Monday morning was $2.77 after dropping c cents overnight, according to a daily survey from the auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Institute and WEX, Inc. That is about 7 cents higher than two weeks ago but is 4 cents cheaper than a month earlier.
While Hurricane Florence, now a tropical depression, battered the Carolinas over the weekend with life-threating storm-surge, rain and flooding, it has had little to no impact on gas prices,
Barring any unscheduled maintenance at refineries, the AAA says motorists in the Midwest and Great Lakes can expect prices to steadily decline this fall.
With the switchover to winter-blend gasoline, which began on Sept. 15, prices are expected to drop this month.