Gas prices drop below $3 at many stations in Dayton area

Gas price for unleaded is below $3 a gallon Monday, July 3, 2023, at the Speedway at Valley Pike and Harshman Road in Riverside. JIM NOELKER/STAFF

Credit: Jim Noelker

Credit: Jim Noelker

Gas price for unleaded is below $3 a gallon Monday, July 3, 2023, at the Speedway at Valley Pike and Harshman Road in Riverside. JIM NOELKER/STAFF

Gas prices in the Dayton area dropped noticeably heading into the Fourth of July holiday, with many locations moving below $3 a gallon.

The average price per gallon in the Dayton area is $3.14, much lower than national average of $3.47.

However, areas of Dayton, Huber Heights, Xenia, New Lebanon, and Riverside dropped to as low as $2.91 Monday, according to GasBuddy’s daytongasprices.com website.

One year ago today, the average gas price in the Dayton area was $4.74 per gallon.

Some of the lowest prices in the region this week include:

- $2.91 in New Lebanon

- $2.93 in Xenia

- $2.95 in Huber Heights

- $2.97 in Dayton

The Fourth of July weekend was expected to see 2.05 million people in Ohio traveling by car to their destinations with 167,694 of those coming from the Dayton Metro Area, according to GasBuddy analysts.

Though demand over the holiday may be high, prices in the area continue to fall.

“For now, gasoline demand will likely ramp up as we enter the peak of the summer, with millions of Americans set to take to the roads with some of the season’s lowest average gasoline prices,” said Patrick De Haan, senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.

The price of gas drops below $3 a gallon at the Marathon gas station at Dayton-Yellow Springs Road Road and Kauffman Avenue in Fairborn Tuesday, July 4, 2023. MARSHALL GORBY/STAFF

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