gas prices

If you would have told me a year ago that we'd be paying less than two-dollars a gallon for gas I would have said you were crazy. Yesterday, I filled up in St. Cloud for $1.90 a gallon (after a 5-cent discount). Last May we were paying more than $4.00 a gallon. That's a huge deal. Sounds like it might stay this way for a while. How low can it go?

A jump at the pump today (Wednesday). Some gas stations in the St. Cloud metro area raised their price for a gallon of regular unleaded to $4.19. That's up from the $3.89 a gallon they were charging yesterday.

The chances of gas prices falling below the $3 mark anytime in the near future might seem unlikely, but analysts say that it could come close. Fuel costs, already dropping, are expected to continue to do so for the rest of the year.

We've all heard that gas prices are going to continue to rise. I don't think any of us were expecting them to go up 20 cents in one day!