The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline remained steady in mid-November at $3.077.
Tuesday’s price is virtually unchanged from a week ago, when the average price for regular gasoline was $3.072 per gallon, according to AAA.
Fuel costs have increased slightly since the beginning of November, when the national average price for regular gas was $3.036 on November 3, the first Monday of the month. Gas prices are also slightly more expensive than they were a month ago, during the middle of October, when the national average price was $3.041, according to AAA. However, this rise in gas prices has only been minimal, with just a few cents per gallon.
Today, gas is less expensive than at the beginning of October, when the average price for a gallon of regular gas was $3.16.
Additionally, over the last 30 days or so, the national average price of gas has flirted with the $3-per-gallon price point. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that the average cost for a gallon of regular gas was $3.035 on October 27. Another gas analysis organization, GasBuddy, noted that the national average price for a gallon of gas had dropped to below $3 per gallon on October 20. They were alone in their analysis, however. Patrick De Haan, GasBuddy’s head of petroleum analysis, celebrated his organization’s report that gas prices fell below $3-per-gallon.
“Gas prices have finally fallen below $3 per gallon nationally — the earliest date we’ve seen a $2.99 national average since 2020, when COVID was the primary driver of low prices,” De Haan said at the time. “Currently, 35 states have average gas prices below $2.99/gal.”
Nevertheless, whether gas prices are slightly under $3 per gallon, or slightly over, the gas affordability has been a consistent reality since President Donald Trump began his second term in January. Gas prices have remained steady for essentially all of 2025, fluctuating within a price range of $3.12 to $3.21. Moreover, during the summer months, there was no customary surge in gas prices, and fuel costs began to decline as autumn arrived.
Despite the national average price for gas currently at $3.077 per gallon, prices vary throughout the U.S., depending on the region of the country. The West Coast has the most expensive gas prices in the country, while states in the Gulf of America region and those adjacent to it have the most affordable gas prices.
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Oklahoma has the nation’s least expensive average gas prices, at $2.532 per gallon. Woodward County in Oklahoma has the lowest gas prices in the state, with an average price of $2.353 per gallon, according to AAA. Mississippi is next with a statewide average price of $2.611 per gallon. Arkansas is next at $2.635 per gallon, followed by Louisiana at $2.637 per gallon. This is followed by Texas, with a statewide average of $2.644.
California remains the state with the most expensive gas prices in the country, with a statewide average of $4.65 per gallon. Some of the counties in the Golden State have averages over $5 per gallon, with Mono County approaching $6 per gallon. Hawaii is next with a statewide average of $4.476 per gallon, followed by the state of Washington with an average price of $4.181. Next is Nevada at $3.878 per gallon, and then Oregon at $3.792.