GAS PRICES DOWN FROM LAST WEEK FOR MEMORIAL DAY
While gas prices are down in Texas from a week ago, they are still much higher this Memorial Day weekend than where they were last year.
According to the AAA Texas Gas Watch, the statewide average for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel is $4.24. That price is down 5 cents from last week, but the price at this time a year ago was $2.72 per gallon, a difference of $1.52.
In Brenham, the average price sits at $4.27, with low of $4.08 and a high of $4.60.
Surveying the metropolitan areas in Texas, drivers in Texarkana are paying the most on average per gallon at $4.35, while drivers in Lubbock are paying the least at $3.99.
Nationwide, the average price for a gallon of unleaded fuel is $4.60, up 1 cent from a week ago and up $1.56 from the price a year ago.
In the Seventies when Carter was President same thing climate crisis equal high gas prices equal high food costs equal sky rocket interest rates on homes and wait for it Taxes. Term limits on All politicians cause they can’t keep their hands out of our pockets. Heard someone say they can’t afford to eat drink or drive but was looking hard at the drinking side.
And just wait until you get your 2022 appraisals from the Washington County Appraisal District for property taxes. You may be in for a surprise as was I, when the ‘appraised values’ doubled.