Iowa (RI) — The busy summer travel season is entering its final weeks, and gasoline prices are starting to fall in Iowa. Brian Ortner, at AAA Iowa, says crude oil prices dropped last week to around $64 a barrel, as gas prices came down in the state by about a nickel a gallon.
AAA reports gas prices in Iowa are now averaging $2.89 a gallon, which is down a dime in the past month, and projections show prices should keep gradually falling.
He notes Labor Day is just three weeks away now.
While Iowa’s gas is averaging $2.89 a gallon, AAA shows the national average is much higher at $3.13.
A check of prices at gasbuddy.com for our part of northwest Iowa showed the cheapest gas on Tuesday morning in Boyden and Hull at $2.79 per gallon. It’s nearly the same in Rock Valley with $2.80 gas. It’s nine cents higher, at $2.89 in Rock Rapids, Sheldon, and Sioux Center. Gas is a nickel higher than that in Sibley, George, and Hawarden at $2.94. It’s $2.97 in Alton and one Orange City station, and $2.99 in Sanborn and Primghar.
(Pat Powers, KQWC, Webster City, with northwest Iowa prices added by KIWA Staff)
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