Everything’s bigger in Texas, including savings on gas in the first few months of 2023.
A new study from a car subscription company called FINN found that drivers in the Lone Star State pay $3.086 per gallon of “regular gas” on average, around 37 cents less than the national average.
“The state which is the second-largest by both area and population has gas prices that are around $0.37 cheaper than the national average,” FINN researchers said in the study. “Across the US, Texas ranks sixth for daily travel with 17,123 lane miles and is also in sixth place for an increase in vehicle miles of travel since 2000, with a rate of 49%. This is 23% higher than the national average, which stands at 26%,” researchers continued.
Texas’ status as the national leader in cheap gas so far this year comes less than a year after gas prices in Houston and across the U.S. reached historic highs above $4.00 per gallon. Even as international conflict drove gas prices up last year, Texas was still a solid place to fill up, with average prices per gallon in Houston and statewide hovering below the ballooning national average.
Just behind Texas on the cheapest gas list is Mississippi at $3.124 per gallon of regular gas on average and Missouri and Oklahoma tied at $3.136 per gallon of regular gas on average, according to FINN’s report.
The priciest gas in the U.S. so far this year can be found in Hawaii, with the average gallon of regular gas coming in at $4.907 per gallon. About 30 cents behind is California’s second-highest per-gallon price of $4.617, FINN researchers found.
