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Although gas prices have begun inching higher, the 38.9 million Americans<\/a>\u00a0who are projected to hit the highways this week for Thanksgiving travel likely will have a cheaper holiday drive than the past few years.<\/p>\n\n

The average price of regular gasoline was $3.2517 a gallon as of Nov. 22<\/a>, according to the latest survey by market-research firm Lundberg Survey. While that’s up 3.46 cents over the previous two weeks, a\u00a0year ago this time a gallon of regular cost on average about $3.47.<\/p>\n\n

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The Lundberg data, which come from a survey of about 2,500 filling stations across the lower 48 states, track closely with the Energy Information Administration’s weekly pump-price survey<\/a>. Both surveys found that gas prices have declined steadily since Labor Day.<\/p>\n\n

Pump prices are the result of several interacting, and not always predictable, factors, among them crude-oil prices, seasonal reformulations, refinery capacity in different regions and driver demand. This Thanksgiving’s gas prices are the lowest since 2010, when the national average price for a gallon of regular was $2.876, according to the EIA.<\/p>\n\n

As of Nov. 18, according to the EIA, gas was most expensive on the West Coast ($3.467 for a gallon of regular) and cheapest on the Gulf Coast ($3.004 for a gallon of regular). (The EIA will update its data later today at 5 p.m. Eastern time.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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