{"id":30934,"date":"2014-05-19T12:16:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T16:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=30934"},"modified":"2014-05-19T12:16:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T16:16:18","slug":"gas-prices-expected-to-fall-through-memorial-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/05\/gas-prices-expected-to-fall-through-memorial-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas Prices Expected To Fall <br>Through Memorial Day Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30935\" title=\"Gas Station\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Gas-Station.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"177\" \/>Crude oil supplies in the Gulf Coast continue putting downward pressure on the price of gasoline. However, prices are not in a free fall as demand reached its highest level since 2009, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).<\/p>\n<p>More than 31.8 million Americans will fill their gas tanks and take a trip of 50 miles or more this Memorial Day weekend. Many of them will be delighted to see that gas prices continue getting cheaper. The national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline fell 1-cent last week. The average price in Florida dropped 3 cents, while prices in Georgia and Tennessee fell 2 cents.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;AAA has forecast gas prices to be at or near last year&#8217;s levels during the Memorial Day holiday weekend,&#8221; said Mark Jenkins, spokesman, AAA &#8211; The Auto Club Group. &#8220;However, the margins of decline have been modest in the past week and prices could be slightly higher than a year ago. Even still, gas prices at these levels are not enough to keep people from traveling during the holiday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gasoline prices have been declining since the beginning of the month, which is typical this time of year, following the conclusion of refinery maintenance leading up to the May 1 deadline to begin producing summer-blend fuel. With this transition now complete, falling averages are increasingly likely to reflect that gas prices have reached their peak for the spring in many parts of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil supplies in the Gulf Coast continue putting downward pressure on the price of gasoline. However, prices are not in a free fall as demand reached its highest level&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}