AAA Texas: Weekend Gas Watch; Falling Demand Sends Gasoline Prices Way Down.HOUSTON Houston, city (1990 pop. 1,630,553), seat of Harris co., SE Tex., a deepwater port on the Houston Ship Channel; inc. 1837. Economy The fourth largest city in the nation and the largest in the entire South and Southwest, Houston is a port of entry; -- The average price for a gallon gallon: see English units of measurement. of gasoline gasoline or petrol, light, volatile mixture of hydrocarbons for use in the internal-combustion engine and as an organic solvent, obtained primarily by fractional distillation and "cracking" of petroleum, but also obtained from natural gas, by in Texas fell by almost 14 cents a gallon within the past week as motorists reduced their consumption of gasoline at record levels, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. AAA AAA: see American Automobile Association. (Triple A) A common single-cell battery used in a myriad of electronic devices of all variety. Like its double A (AA) cousin, it provides 1.5 volts of DC power. When used in series, the voltage is multiplied. Texas' Weekend Gas Watch. This week it is the cities of Galveston Galveston (găl`vəstən), city (1990 pop. 59,070), seat of Galveston co., on Galveston Island, SE Tex.; inc. 1839. The island lies across the entrance to Galveston Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico. and Texas City that have the highest gas average on the list at $2.792 a gallon -- a weekly drop of eight cents. Fort Worth posted the biggest decrease of nearly 22 cents at $2.662 a gallon. Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, in Christianity Corpus Christi [Lat.,=body of Christ], feast of the Western Church, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday (or on the following Sunday). has the lowest average after a 17 cents weekly decrease. "Demand for gasoline showed its biggest year-to-year decrease in more than a decade as motorists cut back on their driving after pump prices topped $3 a gallon gasoline in September September: see month. ," said Rose Rougeau, spokesperson for AAA Texas. "As demand for gasoline continues to drop, retail gas prices will follow." The national average for regular self-serve gasoline is $2.709 a gallon -- that's 6.9 cents lower than last week's average. AAA Texas' Weekend Gas Watch monitors the average price of gasoline in Texas.
Average Daily Prices as of 12:01 a.m., October 21, 2005:
Weekly Weekly
Area 10/21/05 Change 10/14/05 Change 10/07/05
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National $2.709 -6.9 cents $2.837 -10.1 cents $2.938
State $2.688 -13.7 cents $2.825 -8.4 cents $2.909
Austin-San
Marcos $2.684 -8.4 cents $2.768 -6.8 cents $2.836
Beaumont $2.753 -10.1 cents $2.854 -4.6 cents $2.900
Corpus Christi $2.602 -17.1 cents $2.773 -15.9 cents $2.932
Dallas $2.714 -7.7 cents $2.891 -8.2 cents $2.983
Ft. Worth $2.662 -21.8 cents $2.880 -10.5 cents $2.985
Galveston/Texas
City $2.792 -8.0 cents $2.872 -3.2 cents $2.904
Houston $2.760 -8.6 cents $2.856 -5.7 cents $2.913
San Antonio $2.643 -11.3 cents $2.756 -4.2 cents $2.798
Area Record High 2004 Average
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National $3.057 (9/5/05) $2.019
State $2.964 (9/4/05) $1.901
Austin-San
Marcos $2.918 (9/6/05) $1.918
Beaumont $2.930 (9/4/05) $1.877
Corpus Christi $2.929 (9/3/05) $1.874
Dallas $3.019 (9/4/05) $1.904
Ft. Worth $3.012 (9/4/05) $1.892
Galveston/Texas
City $2.997 (9/4/05) $1.883
Houston $2.971 (9/6/05) $1.888
San Antonio $2.909 (9/4/05) $1.914
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