Utah home to the lowest gas prices in the nation


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Updated: 1/08 8:38 pm | Published: 1/08 8:23 pm
(ABC 4 News)
(ABC 4 News)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) While gas prices nation wide have been getting cheaper, Utah has seen the biggest drop. According to AAA, Utah currently has the lowest price for regular gas at an average of $2.90 per gallon.

This is a drop of about 50 cents from December.

All of Utah's cities have seen a drop, with gas being cheapest in Logan with an average of $2.73 per gallon.

Only six other states can boast an average price under $3.00. Utah is followed by Wyoming: $2.92, Colorado: $2.92, Idaho: $2.98, and Oklahoma: $2.99. The national average price is $3.30.


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jrsmith - 1/9/2013 10:07 AM
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Utahpablo - the article didn't say we have the cheapest station, just that we have the cheapest AVERAGE. I filled up yesterday in Salt Lake City for $2.60, so my price must be balancing out yours.

utahpablo - 1/8/2013 10:39 PM
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Utah is NOT the lowest price in the nation abc, do some research at www.gasbuddy.com and check out Mesquite Nevada, they are at $2.72 a gallon at many stations, we live in Washington Utah, some 40 miles north of Mesquite, and still pay $2.91, and Mesquite has been cheaper for over two months now, like .50 a gallon until a few weeks ago. yet Mesquite is still lower than Las Vegas Nevada ( $2.95 a gallon today ) and why is this? As Mesquite is in the middle of nowhere! Do they have a secret gas pipeline we don't know about? Can't be taxes as they are in the same state, so price gouging has to be the answer. How about a story on that abc4?

Dennis - 1/8/2013 10:08 PM
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It's pretty hard for guys my age to get all excited about $2.90/gal. gas when, for the majority of my life, ethyl sold routinely for $0.28 9/10 and regular was $0.24 9/10 per gallon, with diesel about ten cents cheaper than regular. In those days you could even buy 100-octane aviation fuel for about 50 cents per gallon, when octane ratings weren't determined by the so-called "RM+2" method as appears on gas pumps today. I doubt very much the high-compression engines of the late 1950's through the 1970's would even run on the unleaded, phosphorous-free gasolines that are sold today at prices deemed to be a bargain when selling for less than $3.00 per gallon. The fact that "Utah [is currently] home to the lowest gas prices in the nation" is hardly anything to brag about to those of us who can remember when times were much better.
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