The average price of a gallon of gasoline today in Gainesville is below $3-a-gallon for the first time in several months and the statewide average is $3.06, an eight-cents-a-gallon drop since this time last week. The Gainesville price, $2.97, is a dime cheaper than a week ago. Click here to check prices in each county in Georgia AAA Gas Prices
AAA says that nationwide pump prices also maintained their daily decline over the past week despite the uncertainty rippling through the oil market in the days since Hamas terrorists attacked Israel.
“Oil prices have risen a few dollars per barrel this week, but that is far from the roughly $40 per barrel temporary spike following last year’s Russian invasion of Ukraine,” spokesman Andrew Gross said. “The critical difference is that Russia is a significant oil producer, while Israel and the Palestinian territories are not.”