By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The gas prices in Kansas continue to stay below $2 a gallon on average.
"We're at $1.96," said Shawn Steward with AAA Kansas. "About the same as we were a week ago, but two cents less than where we've been for the last month. "We're seeing a slight decline."
Reno County is slightly above that at an average of $1.97 a gallon.
"Last week we saw a small decrease in demand for the first time in the last six or eight weeks," Steward said. "We had been seeing a slow increase in demand for gasoline at the pumps. That kept gas prices fairly stable."
COVID-19, as it is in so much of the economy is the wild card when it comes to the future of gas prices.
"It remains to be seen where we head," Steward said. "COVID-19 is still impacting the country. It remains to be seen where that's going to take us through the fall and winter months."
Traditionally, the fall sees a slight drop in gas prices every year because the winter blend of gasoline is less expensive to make than the summer blend. Part of the drag on prices this spring was that cheaper winter blend gas remained in the system well into the spring.