Drivers Near South Orange-Maplewood Pay More For Gas Than NJ Average, Reports Say

SOUTH ORANGE-MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Looking for cheap gas in Maplewood or South Orange? Wait until the weekend, experts say.

According to GasBuddy, the best time to fuel up in New Jersey is Sunday, which has the lowest average prices of any day in the week.

The most expensive day to gas up? Wednesday, researchers found.

In Essex County, the price of a gallon of gas was $4.30 on Oct. 23 – about 11 cents more expensive than the statewide average, according to AAA.

Here are some prices that were observed at gas stations near Maplewood and South Orange this week, GasBuddy reported:

• $3.99 – Importech, 250 Bloomfield Avenue, Caldwell
• $4.02 – Delta, 315 Bloomfield Avenue, Newark
• $4.05 – 7-Eleven, 122 Bloomfield Avenue, Bloomfield
• $4.09 – QuickChek, 81 Stephens Street, Belleville
• $4.15 – Exxon, 379 Pompton Avenue, Cedar Grove
• $4.15 – Exxon, 432 Broadway, Newark
• $4.19 – Wawa, 11 South Franklin Avenue, Belleville
• $4.25 – Lukoil, 544 William Street, East Orange
• $4.34 – Sunoco, Garden State Parkway, Bloomfield
• $4.35 – Exxon, 493 Central Avenue, Orange
• $4.39 – Exxon, 101 Bloomfield Avenue, Verona
• $4.49 – Shell, 803 Bloomfield Avenue, West Caldwell
• $4.49 – Exxon, 1 Bloomfield Avenue, North Caldwell
• $4.69 – Exxon, 264 Bloomfield Avenue, Montclair
• $4.79 – Exxon, 38 East Mount Pleasant Avenue, Livingston
• $4.99 – Exxon, 972 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange

Gas prices in New Jersey have fallen over the past week and month, but drivers are still paying significantly more to fill their tanks than they did a year ago, reports say.

The statewide average price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $4.19 on Oct. 23, according to AAA. That was down from $4.27 a week earlier and $4.41 a month earlier. However, the current average was about $1.24 higher than the $2.96 drivers paid at this time last year.

New Jersey's average was slightly below the national average of $4.28 per gallon reported Oct. 19 by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, or EIA. The national average fell by about 5 cents from the previous week but remained about $1.27 higher than a year earlier.

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