This compares with the national average that has increased 8.1 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.22 a gallon, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.
Gas prices are still about 13 cents cheaper than they were a year ago but they are up about 24 cents from a month ago.
In Butler County, the cheapest gas as of Monday afternoon is $1.93 a gallon are in the Hamilton area at the Speedway at Hamilton Middletown Road and Creekside Drive, and at Murphy USA on Bypass Ohio 4 and Princeton Road.
Other cheap gas locations include:
Hamilton - $1.94 at the Speedway at Ohio 4 and Tylersville Road
Monroe - $1.94 a gallon at Kroger, Ohio 63 and Heritage Green Drive; and Speedway, Ohio 4 and Roden Road.
Middletown - $2.07 at the Verity Food Mart, North Verity Parkway and Reinartz Boulevard; and UDF, North Verity Parkway and Manchester Avenue.
Fairfield - $2.33 a gallon at the Speedway at Dixie Highway and Nilles Road; and Thorntons, Dixie Highway and Ross Road.
West Chester - $2.29 a gallon at the Sunoco at Tylers Place and Tylersville Road; Speedway at Interstate 75 and Tylersville Road; Sunoco at Interstate 75 and Tylersville Road; and Thorntons, Tylersville Road and Kingsgate Way.
Oxford - $2.39 at the UDF at West High and Beech streets.
“Gasoline and oil prices have set new yearly highs as the imbalance of supply and demand may begin to shift as global oil production shows signs of slowing and gasoline demand is accelerating,” DeHaan said. “Americans appear ripe to consume near record levels of gasoline, if not the highest levels ever this summer with some of the lowest summer prices seen in 10 years or so.”
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