Metro Savannah gas prices down 6.1 cents
Average retail gasoline prices in the Savannah metro area have fallen 6.1 cents a gallon in the past week to $2.08 a gallon on Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 262 gas outlets in Savannah.
The national average has fallen 5.4 cents a gallon in the last week to $2.12, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.
Prices Sunday in Savannah were almost $1.22 a gallon lower than the same day one year ago and were 47.8 cents a gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has decreased 48.6 cents a gallon during the last month and stands at $1.19 a gallon lower than a year ago.
“Since last week, some 12,000 stations dropped their price under $2 a gallon, with 45.1 percent of all gas stations now selling under the $2 mark,” said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst with GasBuddy.
And it doesn’t stop there, DeHaan said.
“Overnight, the average price for diesel fuel in the U.S. dropped under $3 a gallon for the first time since Oct. 2, 2010, and will shed yet another 25-50 cents per gallon before reaching a bottom,” he said.
Community Foundation awards local grants
The Savannah Community Foundation Inc. has announced $168,494 in grants from its Alan S. Gaynor Fund to eight Chatham County charities:
• Consumer Credit Counseling for financial literacy workshops for students middle school through college age.
• Frank Callen Boys & Girls Club for a Club Robo Tech Program for club members ages 6 to 13 to help with computer skills and increase their knowledge in technology, science, math and engineering.
• Friends of Tybee Theater to restore and install cast iron chairs formerly used by Trustees Theater.
• National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force for a Character Counts Educational Program benefiting approximately 37,000 public school students.
• Reed House Inc. to sustain its “Work-Ordered Day” program to help those with mental illness develop skills to find and keep employment.
• Royce Learning Center for its computer center, benefiting the center’s approximate 500 learners.
• Savannah Association for the Blind and Low Vision to buy canes for vision impaired children.
• Savannah Music Festival for a Musical Explorers program for approximately 9,500 kindergarten through second-grade students and 230 teachers in 59 schools.
• Savannah Tree Foundation to plant trees at 20 bus stops.
• Telfair Museums for an “Art for All” program via six different programs.
• Union Mission to buy a new van.