GAS PRICES STILL GOING DOWN THE NEW YORK TIMES, JULY 22

 THE NEW YORK TIMES, JULY 22

By German Lopez Writer, The Morning

   https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/22/briefing/gas-prices-us-economy.html

Good morning. Gas prices have now fallen for more than a month.

After months of gas prices making life more expensive, they have quietly started to go down — providing financial relief for many Americans.

The average nationwide price this week was $4.49 a gallon, down from a peak of $5.01 in June. The average price of gas is still about $1.30 higher than it was a year ago, but it has now fallen for more than a month.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration

That is welcome news for consumers: Higher gas prices affect not just people filling their cars but also, through higher transportation costs, the price of almost everything else.