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Price snapshot this week:
RI: $3.60, down .10
MA: $3.66, down .10
CT: $3.52, down .13
NY: $3.70, down .08
NJ: $3.58, down .14
Last week gas inventories up 2.1m bbl, distillate (diesel, home heating oil) up 500,000 bbl.
Currently, gas inventories are 4 percent below seasonal 5-year average. Distillate is 11 percent below the 5-year avg.
Gas prices continue to fall, prices in the Northeast are still above the national average. But prices will continue to slide thanks to builds in gasoline and diesel over the past few weeks. Meanwhile demand is off by 400,000 bbl/day for gasoline compared to the last year, according to the EIA.
Although prices are below $3/gallon in more and more states, the Northeast supply issue is still a big hurdle for us in NY/NJ/New England.