Nationally, the price of gasoline has either held steady or dropped since last week, according to the AAA.
The average price is $2.49 a gallon, 18 cents less than the second week of September.
“Gas prices have fallen steadily for the past four weeks and now we are seeing gasoline demand drop alongside prices,” Jeanette Casselano, AAA spokeswoman, said. “The latest demand figures show the lowest since the week Hurricane Harvey hit and can likely be the beginning of a downward demand trend indicating even cheaper gas prices to come this fall.”
The Energy Information Administration measured gasoline demand at 9.2 million barrels per day, 281,000 barrels less than last week.
U.S. refineries and oil rigs closed in anticipation of Hurricane Nate, but the storm has had no impact on gas prices.
Georgia and Michigan had the nation’s largest price drop, 10 cents, followed by Ohio, Indiana, and South Carolina at 9 cents. The cheapest prices, $2.23 a gallon, are in Oklahoma.
Prices in New Jersey are 49 cents higher than October 2016 and represent the nation’s largest year-over-year increase.
The West Coast and several of the Rocky states have the nation’s highest prices. Hawaii and California have the highest prices at $3.11 and $3.06 respectively.