Where Is The Cheapest Gas in Acadiana? Here’s What We’ve Found

(KMDL-FM)The summer driving season has come to an end, and most of us won't be making long drives until the holidays. Still, the cost of getting to work and driving kids to school plays a huge part in your family budget. With the average price for a gallon of regular gas now about $4 a gallon, the cost of "driving there" is now an even bigger consideration.

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The website Axios crunched the numbers, and their statistics showed that the average Louisiana motorist will drive an average of 43.9 miles per day. This includes your commute, the carpool, trips to the store, and other errands that you might take care of on an average day.

The True Driving Cost Guide studied fuel economy, and its statistics suggest that the average vehicle in Louisiana gets 23.7 miles per gallon. So, in very rough terms, you're spending about $8 a day on fuel, using these figures for reference.

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That means you spend, on average, $40 per week just to drive places you have to go. This doesn't include driving to places you want to go. If we compare that to last year, when fuel prices were $1.30 per gallon cheaper, you would have paid $5.46 per gallon for your daily drive, and that would work out to about $27.30 per week.

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We are paying $13 more per week to drive the same places we drove at a much lower price last year. Last year's annual fuel cost would have been close to $1,420. However, in this year's gas prices, the annual fuel cost is going to be closer to $2,080.

Where is the Cheapest Gas in Acadiana?

According to GasBuddy, the cheapest on that site was $3.83 a gallon at Costco.  The Mobil station on Weeks Island Road in New Iberia had the lowest price there at $3.81 a gallon; you could also find that price at the Love's Travel Center.

GasBuddy was reporting that the Exxon Station on Main Street in Broussard had gas for $3.79. We also found that same price at the Marathon Gas Station on Austria Road in Duson.

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In our search for lower gas prices around the region, we found very few locations in South Louisiana that were offering gas at over $4 per gallon. The statewide average price for a gallon of regular, according to the American Automobile Association, is $4.03.

The national average price for a gallon of regular, again according to Triple A, is $4.48. Louisiana's average prices are just about .50 cents lower, but not quite. Meanwhile, the cost of diesel has gotten so much out of hand that Governor Landry has had to sign an executive order to assist our farmers and foresters.

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Industry experts are forecasting a price of $4 to $4.50 per gallon to be common between now and the end of the year. The main force driving the price is the current conflict in the Middle East. Perhaps if that can be resolved, the country might see some easing of gas prices. But that is only speculation.