According to a recent release from Gas Buddy, the prediction is for a yearly decline in the national average price of gas for the second year in a row.
This year, prices are about twenty-four cents a gallon higher than they were last year at this time. According to AAA, the current nationwide average price of gas is $3.87 per gallon. Here in New Jersey, the statewide average is $3.75 per gallon.
For some unknown reason, New Jersey remains adamant about not letting us simply put a credit card into the pump and fill our own tanks like all the other states get to do.
This heatwave is so bad in Oregon that the state fire marshall has temporarily suspended the state's ban on self-service gas stations in an effort to protect the attendants from the heat. Granted the ban was only lifted for two days and the temperatures reached 110 but at least it's a start.