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White Plains Drivers Start To Feel Relief At Pump

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – White Plains motorists may start to notice gas prices trickling downward, as the gas shortage and spectacular lines at stations have subsided after Hurricane Sandy. As of Thursday afternoon, New Yorkers were paying $3.88 per gallon for regular ($4.22 for premium) – the most in the country and eight cents higher than in Connecticut, which was the second highest nationwide. The cheapest gas could be found in Mississippi at $3.13 a gallon. In White Plains, the cheapest gas was at the Gulf station at 634 Mamaroneck Ave., at $3.87 per gallon for regular. Drivers paid two cents more at the Citgo station at 430 Mamaroneck Ave., USA Gasoline at 378 Mamaroneck Ave. and Mobil at 417 Mamaroneck Ave. Nationally, motorists were paying an average of $3.40 per gallon for regular and $3.72 for premium on Thursday. Prices were10 cents higher than they were a year earlier, but three cents lower than in the previous week. AAA New York spokesperson Robert Sinclair said Hurricane Sandy caused prices to be the highest they’ve ever been on Thanksgiving Day. “We had a good trend of gasoline prices going down in the last half of September, and it went down 26 cents in October. Thanks to the hurricane, it dropped less than a dime in November,” he said. “We were peaking much higher in our region as a result of the storm.” If typical gas price cycles continue, prices should continue dropping until they bottom out in December or January, Sinclair said. They should stay flat for some time before they begin a slow and steady climb toward the end of February or beginning of March. Sinclair warned that the weather might still be a factor in another price spike if it gets extremely cold. “The X factor is the cold weather. If thermostats get cranked up, we’re going to need more home heating oil,” he said. “When there’s a need for more oil, it causes competition with gas – which would lead to the prices of heating oil and gasoline both rising.”

Drivers begin to see relief at the pump in White Plains.

Drivers begin to see relief at the pump in White Plains.

Photo Credit: Brian Donnelly

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