WASHINGTON – U.S. drivers, including landscape professionals routing crews to multiple locations daily, continued to get a break from high gasoline prices as retail fuel costs fell for the seventh week in a row. The prices dropped 0.9 cents from last week to $1.462 a gallon, the Energy Department reported on Aug. 7.
The pump price for conventional unleaded gasoline remains the lowest since early May, but is still up 26 cents a gallon from a year ago, based on the department's weekly survey of 800 service stations.
The national price for cleaner burning reformulated gasoline is down 1.3 cents to $1.529 a gallon.
California motorists continue to pay the most for fuel. Conventional gasoline in the region was down 1.1 cents to $1.642 a gallon and reformulated gasoline fell 1.5 cents to $1.666.
The Midwest has the cheapest gasoline in the country, following prices of more than $2.00 a gallon less than two months ago, with conventional gasoline up 1 penny to $1.372 and reformulated gasoline unchanged from last week's price of $1.346 a gallon.
Although U.S. gasoline prices were at record high levels earlier this summer, they were still several dollars a gallon less compared to gasoline prices in some European and Asian countries.
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