Tara Ricard, the manager of marketing and public relations at AAA Hudson Valley, filled up her car with gas at Sam’s Club in Latham on Monday. The cost: $2.89 per gallon.
This location is currently offering one of the lowest prices in the Capital Region, aligning with prices that many across the United States are now seeing. National gas prices have dropped below $3 per gallon for the first time since 2021.
That’s according to recent reports by GasBuddy, a platform that gathers gas price data from customers and retailers, and AAA, which contracts data from Oil Price Information Services . On Wednesday, the national average for a gallon of regular gas dropped to $2.99, according to AAA…