AAA: Gasoline prices same in R.I., fall in Mass.

GASOLINE PRICES remain just above the $2 mark in Rhode Island, and just below the $2 mark in Massachusetts, according to AAA Northeast. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE/DANIEL ACKER
GASOLINE PRICES remain just above the $2 mark in Rhode Island, and just below the $2 mark in Massachusetts, according to AAA Northeast. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE/DANIEL ACKER

PROVIDENCE – Gasoline prices remain just above $2 in Rhode Island, and just below $2 in Massachusetts, according to AAA Northeast.

In the Ocean State, self-serve, regular unleaded gasoline is averaging $2.02 per gallon, the same price as last week. Rhode Island’s price is 2 cents above the $2 national average for regular unleaded, but is 39 cents lower than Rhode Island’s price a year ago at this time, when it was $2.41.
Prices range from $1.91 to $2.13, with midgrade unleaded at $2.31; premium unleaded at $2.48; and diesel, $2.31.
AAA Northeast said gasoline prices in Massachusetts started the new year the same way last year ended, by continuing to fall.
AAA’s Jan. 4 survey of prices in Massachusetts found self-serve, regular unleaded averaging $1.97 per gallon, 2 cents less than last week. The Massachusetts price is 3 cents below the national average, and 40 cents less than it was a year ago at this time.
Prices in the Bay State range from $1.83 to $2.29, with midgrade unleaded at $2.32; premium unleaded at $2.51; and diesel, $2.32.
According to AAA Northeast, drivers paid the second-cheapest gas prices in a decade in all of 2015, as the national average price was $2.41 per gallon, 94 cents less than in 2014.

AAA also estimates that Americans saved more than $115 billion on gasoline in 2015 compared with 2014, with an average of more than $550 per licensed driver.
And, approximately 70 percent of U.S. stations are selling gas for less than $2 per gallon, AAA said.
Drivers may pay even less in 2016, AAA said, as it is estimating that the annual average price is likely to be between $2.25 and $2.45 per gallon, cheaper or at least similar to the 2015 average of $2.41.

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