Back again, gas at less than $3 a gallon

Posted 10/21/14

After four years, gasoline is under $3 a gallon again at a Warwick station, regular unleaded at $2.98. The station is one of, if not the first, to break the three-dollar barrier.

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Back again, gas at less than $3 a gallon

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After four years, gasoline is under $3 a gallon again at a Warwick station, regular unleaded at $2.98. The station is one of, if not the first, to break the three-dollar barrier.

“It’s unbelievable…I’ll be saving a few pennies,” said Michael Leavitt as he pumped gas Sunday at the Gulf station at the corner of Tidewater Drive and West Shore Road.

Leavitt recently returned from North Carolina, where he said the price was $2.45 a gallon, which got him thinking why there’s such variation in price, even for stations within short distances of each other.

“Just up the road from here, it’s 23 cents more,” he said. “Why can’t there be a universal price?”

Price is on the mind of customers, even when they’re getting one of the best rates in Rhode Island.

“They say it is going to go down more,” said Atish B. Patel, who was managing the store. “And I don’t know if it is going to go down more.”

Patel said several customers told him his rates were the lowest they had seen and the lowest in the state. The $2.98 rate was for cash payments. The credit payment is 6 cents higher.

Leavitt said he always pays with cash to reap the savings. He’s prepared to take the extra steps and time it requires.

Another gas customer waiting at the register to pay couldn’t see the bright side of paying $2.98.

“It could be better,” he grumbled, when asked what he thought of gas under $3 a gallon.

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