Why Are Wyoming Gas Prices Going Up?

While watching gasoline prices rise, I have to remind myself where we were. Back in 2012 we were getting gouged for $3.54 per gallon. We can count our blessings as we pay $01.3 cents more per gallon than we did last week. GasBuddy.com checked 494 Wyoming gas stations to find that on average, we are paying $1.93 per gallon of regular.

We’re doing better than the rest of the US which has gone up $02.1 cents per gallon to $2.06 per gallon. The increase is due in large part to refinery maintenance. Even though crude prices have even dropped recently and supplies of oil inventories have increased, gas prices are slowly rising and likely will continue through the month of May until the winter blends have all been used.

If you need more cheering up, remember that nationally, gas prices have gone up almost a quarter, but they are down $33.6 cents per gallon from last year at this time. That’s very important to a vacation destination state like Wyoming. Those dollars will be much appreciated in an energy producing state like Wyoming, which has taken hard hits to oil and coal. Here’s to the companies and families effected.