Gasoline prices have fallen 3.8 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.62/g Monday. This compares with the national average that has fallen 2.9 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.62/g, according to gasoline price website FloridaStateGasPrices.com.

Including the change in gas prices in Florida during the past week, prices Monday were 62.2 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 16.3

cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has decreased 11.9

cents per gallon during the last month and stands 67.6 cents per gallon higher

than this day a year ago.

“Gasoline prices will begin to slowly rise across much of the country as colder

than average weather results in rising oil demand as temperatures plummet in key

areas that warm their homes using heating oil”, says GasBuddy.com senior

petroleum analyst, Patrick DeHaan.

“However, gasoline prices in the Midwest will buck the trend as stockpiles swell in the Great Lakes area.” He also said that stockpiles grew last week to the highest levels since March 2008 in that area, resulting in lower prices as supply greatly outpaces demand.

GasBuddy.com operates over 200 live gasoline price-tracking websites, including

FloridaStateGasPrices.com. GasBuddy.com was named one of Time magazine’s 50 best websites and to PC World’s 100 most useful websites of 2008.