The nation’s average price of gas fell for the seventh straight week, to $3 per gallon for the first time in three years, according to GasBuddy on Monday.
GasBuddy collected the data from more than 12 million individual price reports covering more than 150,000 gas stations across the country.
The new numbers show that the national average fell $0.06 from one week ago, $0.077 from a month ago, and $0.0232 per gallon lower than a year ago.
“Millions took to the road for Thanksgiving, and while some regions, like the Great Lakes, saw gas prices rise just in time for travel, most of the nation saw prices hold mostly stable or decline slightly as the national average remains near the lowest level we’ve seen since 2021,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, said in a statement….