The demand for gasoline is down to a nearly 30-year low at a time when people are staying at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic and gasoline prices continue to drop.
As traffic drops, so do gas prices. The national gas price average is $1.83, which is a drop of 8 cents since last week, 50 cents since last month and 95 cents since last year. In Kansas, prices have dropped 10 cents since last week, nearly 50 cents in the past month and 94 cents since last year. The state average sits at $1.61.
Montgomery County currently sits slightly higher than the state average at $1.67, while Labette County came in slightly higher at $1.69 a gallon. Both Chautauqua and Elk counties are level with the state average.
Oklahoma has checked in with the 2nd least expensive gas in the country with an average gallon of gasoline costing $1.39. Gas in Washington and Nowata counties came in just over the state average at $1.40 and $1.44 a gallon, respectively.
