NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Shawn Steward with AAA Kansas notes that prices at the pump are not too bad for August.
"Gas prices have been stabilizing and headed down a little bit of late," Steward said. "We're at $3.15 a gallon on average across Kansas right now. That's down two cents in the past week. We're currently 30 cents less than the national average, which is $3.45. We're about 50 cents less than we were a year ago."
Kansas is the 10th cheapest state in the U.S. for gas.
Area county averages are as follows:
Reno: $3.03
McPherson: $3.02
Harvey: $3.15
Sedgwick: $3.33
Kingman: $3.18
Pratt: $3.20
Stafford: $3.19
Rice: $3.21
"Demand fell slightly last week," Steward said. "We've seen domestic gasoline stocks on the increase. Domestic crude oil production actually hit an all-time high, it was 13.4 million barrels per day last week. Domestic gas production also rose, averaging 10 million barrels per day, some strong production numbers, strong supply and demand has been a little bit soft."
It's likely to get softer as school starts again.
"As we head into fall and winter, typically, those are lower demand seasons," Steward said. "Summer vacations are over and just fewer people out on the road taking recreational trips. We generally do see lower demand. When we get into the end of the summer blend gasoline coming up, as we've talked about before, summer blend is more expensive to produce and usually raises the gas prices a little bit in the spring."
For the latest gas prices anywhere you want to go, go to https://gasprices.aaa.com/.