Baton Rouge gas prices pumped up during holidays

While you can find a number of gas stations around Baton Rouge that are selling gas below $3 a gallon, the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas in the city remains at $3.07, according to the AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report. That’s up five cents from the average price one week ago, the report says, but down 13 cents from a month ago. Compared to last year, a gallon of gas in Baton Rouge costs one penny more this year, on average. The local average price remains below the state average of $3.10 per gallon, which is five cents higher than a week ago and three cents higher than a year ago. It’s also lower than the national average of $3.24 a gallon, which is up two cents on the week and a penny on the year. According to the Lundberg Survey, which tabulates gas prices at thousands of gas stations across the country, U.S. gas prices have bottomed out after having fallen about 60 cents over the past three months. The survey’s publisher, Tribly Lundberg, recently forecast gas prices at the pump will rise five to 10 cents per gallon across the country in the coming weeks. You can check out the complete AAA Daily Fuel Gauge report here; and find local prices by station here.