据今日油价网站12月16日消息 油价跟踪机构GasBuddy石油分析主管帕特里克·德哈恩周四表示，自感恩节以来，美国汽油价格已下跌0.10美元，并将在圣诞节前进一步下跌，不过圣诞节汽油价格可能接近有史以来最高的圣诞节汽油价格。

德哈恩表示：“油价在圣诞节前及时降价，自感恩节以来，全国汽油平均价格每加仑下降了10美分。”

根据美国汽车协会的数据，截至12月16日，普通汽油的全国平均价格为每加仑3.316美元。

上周，美国汽油价格在11月底国际原油价格大幅调整后终于开始下跌，原因是人们对新的冠状病毒变种奥密克戎的担忧。

然而，美国的汽油价格仍远高于去年同期，当时一加仑普通汽油的平均售价为2.158美元。

德哈恩在12月6日表示：“未来几天将出现更大幅度下跌，3.29美元/加仑的价格应该会出现。”

周四，德哈恩预测，圣诞节的全国平均油价将从今天的3.32美元降至每加仑3.25美元。

尽管最近油价下跌，但汽油价格比去年平均水平高出1美元以上。

今年圣诞节，美国的汽油价格将低于感恩节的价格，但据GasBuddy称，预计将非常接近2013年圣诞节每加仑3.26美元的历史高点。

GasBuddy预计，该圣诞汽油价格将达到每加仑3.25美元，低于2013年的纪录高点，与2012年的第二高价格持平。相比之下，2020年圣诞节期间的汽油价格为每加仑2.25美元。

GasBuddy表示：“与2013年每加仑3.26美元的圣诞记录价格相比只相差了1美分，这是有史以来最高的圣诞节价格，2021年的价格仍有可能仍高于前一个圣诞节的记录。”

王磊 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

U.S. Gasoline Prices Continue To Fall Ahead Of Christmas

U.S. gasoline prices have dropped by $0.10 since Thanksgiving and are set to fall further until Christmas, although the holiday prices could be close to the highest Christmas gasoline prices on record, Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at fuel-savings platform GasBuddy, said on Thursday.

“Santa came early this year, delivering lower gas prices just in time for Christmas with the national average price of gasoline down 10 cents per gallon since Thanksgiving,” De Haan said.

As of December 16, the national average price of a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.316, according to data from AAA.

Last week, U.S. gasoline prices finally started to fall after the major correction in international crude oil prices at the end of November driven by fears of the new COVID variant, Omicron. 

Yet, gasoline prices in America are still much higher than at this time last year, when a gallon of regular gasoline sold for an average of $2.158.

“More declines coming. $3.29/gal should happen in the next few days,” De Haan said on December 6.

On Thursday, De Haan projected that the national average on Christmas was set to decline to $3.25 per gallon from today’s $3.32.

Despite the recent drop in prices, gasoline is more than $1 more expensive than the average for last year. 

This Christmas, gasoline prices in America will be lower than the Thanksgiving prices, but they are expected to be very close to the all-time high for Christmas of $3.26 per gallon in 2013, according to GasBuddy.

The fuel-savings platform expects this Christmas gasoline prices at $3.25 per gallon, a cent below the record high of 2013 and on par with the second-highest price of 2012. To compare, gasoline prices during the Christmas of 2020 were $2.25 per gallon.

“Just a penny away from 2013’s Christmas tally of $3.26 per gallon, the priciest Christmas on record, there remains a chance prices in 2021 could still land just above the previous Christmas record,” GasBuddy said.