The national average for regular gasoline fell to $4.02 a gallon on Sunday, Nov. 8, down 15 cents from a week earlier and 34 cents from a month ago, according to AAA's daily survey. That is still 95 cents more than a year ago.
Prices had been falling for nearly two weeks as crude oil slipped back into the high $80s to low $90s a barrel and West Texas Intermediate settled at $88.12, AAA said in its update on Thursday, adding that before this year the national average had never topped $4 a gallon in any November.
Where prices stand
| Fuel | Nov. 8 | A week ago | A month ago | A year ago |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular | $4.02 | $4.17 | $4.36 | $3.07 |
| Premium | $4.94 | $5.08 | $5.27 | $3.94 |
| Diesel | $6.19 | $6.30 | $6.28 | $3.73 |
Diesel has barely moved in a month. At $6.19 it sits about 33 cents under its all-time high of $6.53, set on Sept. 22 this year, and it costs $2.46 a gallon more than a year ago. Regular gas is still about a dollar below its record of $5.02 from June 2022.
The Energy Information Administration's weekly gasoline and diesel update points the same way, with regular gas at $4.15 on Nov. 2, down 12 cents in a week but $1.13 above a year earlier, and its next survey comes out Monday, Nov. 10.
The gap between states
The West Coast region averages more than $5 a gallon. In AAA's Nov. 5 figures, California led at $5.83, followed by Hawaii at $5.64, Nevada at $5.18 and Washington at $5.12. North Carolina was the cheapest at $3.34, with Georgia at $3.54 and Texas at $3.58. In the federal survey for Nov. 2, the Rocky Mountain region posted the biggest weekly drop of any region, 24.5 cents a gallon, while California's average slipped 14 cents to $5.75.
Charging an electric car went the other way, up a cent to 42 cents per kilowatt-hour at public chargers.
