GasBuddy predicts a national average of $3.22 per gallon in 2025, marking the lowest average since 2021.
More good news is coming to inflation-weary drivers: Gas prices are expected to drop in 2025 for the third straight year, according to GasBuddy projections shared exclusively with CNN. GasBuddy, which has accurately forecasted gas prices the past several years, expects the national average for regular gas to fall to $3.22 a gallon next year. That would mark a modest decline from about $3.33 in 2024 and mark the lowest annual average since 2021.
The forecast for muted prices at the pump is a far cry from the spike above $5 a gallon nationally in mid-2022, an unprecedented surge that rocked the American economy, crushed consumers and became the epicenter of the inflation crisis. Based on the new forecast, GasBuddy expects Americans will spend about $115 billion less on fuel in 2025 than they did in 2022. “2025 looks to continue the trend of slow-but-steady improvement at the pump,” Patrick De Haan, GasBuddy’s head of petroleum analysis, told CNN in a phone interview. GasBuddy expects the national average will stay safely below $3.50 a gallon each month of 2025, even during the peak driving season of late spring and early summer. The typical household is expected to spend $2,252 next year on fuel. That would be above the pre-Covid level of $1,952 in 2019 but well below the record high of $2,715 in 2022. However, De Haan warned that this projection for tame gas prices could be disrupted by several X-factors, including President-elect Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs on Canada and Mexico. “Trump is a bit of a wildcard. He tends to destabilize the status quo and that increases risk and makes it harder to predict prices,” said De Haan. Sub-$2 gas is unlikely Gas prices, highly visible and difficult for many to avoid, play an outsized role in how Americans feel about the economy and their financial health. They serve as a real-time barometer for the cost of living and influence consumer psycholog
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