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Middletown Gas Prices Run About 14 Cents Below State Average As Prices Keep Falling

Middletown drivers are paying about $4.10 a gallon, compared with $4.24 statewide and $4.15 nationally.

Middletown drivers are paying about $4.10 a gallon, compared with $4.24 statewide and $4.15 nationally.
Middletown drivers are paying about $4.10 a gallon, compared with $4.24 statewide and $4.15 nationally. (Chris Dehnel/Patch)

MIDDLETOWN, CT — Prices at the Middletown stations with current reports are running about 14 cents below the state average this week as the Connecticut and national averages continued to drop, according to AAA and the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in Connecticut was $4.24 on Tuesday, according to AAA. That is down about 5 cents from $4.29 a week ago and down about 22 cents from $4.46 a month ago. Compared with a year ago, when the state average was $3.04, drivers are paying about $1.20 more per gallon.

The Connecticut average is about 9 cents higher than the national average of $4.15 a gallon for regular gasoline, according to the latest weekly data from the EIA, released Nov. 3 and reflecting prices as of Nov. 2. The national average fell about 12 cents from $4.27 the previous week.

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The EIA does not track Connecticut prices individually. It reports them as part of its New England region, where regular gasoline averaged $4.15 a gallon as of Nov. 2, down about 5 cents from the week before.

In Middletown, the seven stations with current price reports averaged $4.10 a gallon for regular. That is about 14 cents below the Connecticut average from AAA and about 5 cents below both the New England average from the EIA and the national average. Eight other Middletown stations had no current regular price report.

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Here are the most recent regular gas prices reported at stations in Middletown. Stations without a current price report are not listed.

Gas prices can change several times a week and may vary between stations in the same town. The figures above reflect the most recent reports available at the time of publication.

Sources: AAA; EIA; station prices from a crowdsourced fuel-price tracking site.

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