Pump Prices Please Drivers

By Joy Howe
WJBF News Channel 6 Aiken County Reporter
Published: October 10, 2008

North Augusta, GA—What a difference....a few weeks makes.

Melissa Seigler, Hephzibah: “$37.00! Much better!”

Fran McCormick, Belvedere: “It makes you feel good when it comes down!”

And down it goes: One station after another, closer...and closer...and closer...to being 3 dollars or less a gallon.

David Baskins, North Augusta: “Under 3 dollars would be great.”

Some stations across the country are already there, but AAA says the ‘hurricane hangover’ is ending for the southeast, as pipelines start to run again at full steam…and slowly, but surely we’re catching up.

Tanya Roberson, AAA: “We’re still behind the national average; we’re still paying more than definitely everyone else is. So an 8 cent drop is a great start so we’re hoping to continue seeing that to go down.”

Already, prices fell 8 cents overnight in the area, and triple -a- reports they expect prices to continue to drop through the end of the year.

Troy Watson, North Augusta: “My back pocket’s definitely saying thank you.”

Roberson: “We made it through the 3 week hump, it was difficult, but I think we’re about to see the tide to turn.”

A decline in prices is raising some people’s spirits about our economy.

Fran McCormick, Belvedere: “We are going to have to have patience. And it will get better.

Pari Mura, Clearwater: “This is not the end of it. We are strong and we’ll come back.”

You might have noticed some stations still don’t have premium or mid-grade gas. AAA representatives say many stations took what they could get during the ‘gas crisis’ but now that pipelines are back online, stations should have all gas grades soon.