Tennessee gas prices averaged $2.59 on Sunday. The state average is the same as last week, and 22 cents less than the national average. However, Tennessee motorists are paying 47 cents more per gallon than this time last year.
About half the price of what you pay at the pump is determined by the price of oil. Last week, crude oil rose more than a dollar, which usually equates to a 2.5 cent increase at the pump.
AAA spokesman Mark Jenkins said preliminary projections had gasoline averaging around $2.75 this summer. The national average was $2.81 on Sunday.
The low price in Coffee County as of Monday afternoon was in Manchester at $2.49 per gallon and in Tullahoma the low price was $2.57.
Weekly Gas Price Update
