Eugene gas prices dip ahead of Fourth of July travel rush
A 20-gallon fill-up in Eugene now costs $3.76 less than it did a week ago, but the city still sits 24.8 cents above Oregon’s average. AAA says more holiday travel and softer crude prices are pushing pump prices lower.
A 20-gallon fill-up in Eugene now costs about $3.76 less than it did a week ago, after regular gasoline fell 18.8 cents to an average of $4.46 a gallon. Even with that break, Eugene drivers are still paying 24.8 cents more per gallon than the Oregon average of $4.708, a gap that adds nearly $5 to a 20-gallon tank.
A weekly survey of 78 Eugene stations found the lowest regular price in Eugene was $4.15 a gallon and the highest was $5.09, a 94-cent spread that can change the cost of a holiday weekend fill-up by almost $19 on a 20-gallon purchase. Eugene prices were also 73.5 cents lower than a month ago and 47.8 cents higher than the same week last year.
Statewide prices were down, and GasBuddy’s weekly data put the national regular-gas average at $3.78 a gallon. Medford, Salem and Portland also posted declines. Eugene drivers remained well above the national average.
Pump prices have been steadily falling since May 22, after mid-June spikes tied to the Israel-Iran conflict and U.S. attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities. AAA Oregon/Idaho put Oregon’s regular-gas average at $4.83 and the national average at $3.93 on June 23. By June 29, those figures had fallen to $4.708 in Oregon and $3.86 nationally. Oregon regular gas slipped below $5 a gallon on June 14, and the national average dropped below $4 on June 18.
Marie Dodds, public affairs director for AAA Oregon/Idaho, expects more declines if Middle East tensions do not flare again, though getting back to prewar levels will take time because shipping and production still have to recover. AAA projects 72.2 million Americans and 877,000 Oregonians will travel 50 miles or more over the Independence Day holiday period.
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