The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is traditionally the busiest travel day of the year, and today, the Sunday after Thanksgiving, is usually close behind. According to AAA, the national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline is $3.39, down about a penny from a week ago. One month ago, the national average was also $3.39 per gallon.
Drivers are filling their tanks for less in Texas, where the average price is still just barely under three dollars per gallon, at $2.98, and in Oklahoma, where it is $2.95. Drivers have it worst in California, where the average price is $4.71 per gallon, and Hawaii, at $4.35 per gallon.
In sparsely populated Mono County, Calif., the average price has reached $5.64 per gallon. Quite a few California counties are close to an average price of $5 per gallon. In Napa County, the average price per gallon is $4.88, which is slightly more expensive than the average price of the cheapest bottle of wine produced in the county…
National Review 
