Gas prices hold steady for Thanksgiving travel after years of increases

For Thanksgiving vacationers, there’s excellent news on the pump: fuel costs stay steady, a far cry from the sticker shock of current years.

GasBuddy predicts a nationwide common of $3.02 per gallon in the course of the holidays, which matches final 12 months’s worth. Each 2024 and 2025 now boast the bottom Thanksgiving fuel costs because the pandemic, when the nationwide common was $3.39 per gallon in 2021 and $3.56 in 2022.

Gasoline costs for the Thanksgiving vacation as tracked by GasBuddy. (GasBuddy/Fox Information Digital)

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And for a lot of directors, this nationwide stability can also be mirrored regionally. Almost 30 states now have common costs beneath $3, from Colorado to New Hampshire and Georgia, in line with AAA. Oklahoma tops the record with a mean of simply $2.50 per gallon.

On the opposite finish of the spectrum, California tops the record of the costliest gasoline markets at $4.63 per gallon, adopted by Hawaii at $4.47 and Washington at $4.18. Rounding out the highest 10 are Nevada ($3.84), Oregon ($3.81), Alaska ($3.75), Arizona ($3.37) and three states tied at $3.29: Pennsylvania, Idaho and Illinois.

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In the meantime, probably the most reasonably priced fuel may be present in Oklahoma at $2.57, Mississippi at $2.61 and Louisiana at $2.65. These states are adopted by Tennessee ($2.66), Arkansas ($2.67), Texas ($2.70), Kansas ($2.71), Missouri ($2.73), Alabama ($2.73) and Kentucky ($2.74).

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AAA expects almost 82 million Individuals will journey not less than 50 miles from residence in the course of the Thanksgiving vacation, 1.6 million greater than final 12 months, marking a file excessive for Thanksgiving journey.

The revelation comes because the Trump administration continues to push for power dominance, a key pillar of President Donald Trump’s financial and nationwide safety agenda.

And whereas Thanksgiving marks the busiest journey stretch of the 12 months, it isn’t the one time drivers take a break. On this Labor Day, motorists noticed the bottom gasoline costs in half a decade.