AAA announces that after a nine-day hold, the national gas price average slowly started to decline at the beginning of the Thanksgiving week. The national gas price average today, $2.54, is forty cents more than a year ago and two cents less than a week ago. Gas can be found for $2.50 or less at 55 percent of gas stations country-wide.
The top ten states with the largest yearly increases include:
- Alaska (+63 cents)
- Illinois (+59 cents)
- Indiana (+58 cents)
- Minnesota (+55 cents)
- Wisconsin (+54 cents)
- California (+52 cents)
- Michigan (+51 cents)
- Kansas (+49 cents)
- Iowa (+47 cents)
- Colorado (+47 cents)
