Essential workers who are still on the roads everyday have at least one benefit- cheap gas prices.
In the Milwaukee area, you can find fuel for as little as 94 cents a gallon, with the average sitting at $1.21.
Patrick DeHaan, Head of Petroleum Analysis at GasBuddy, tells WTMJ you’d have to go back to 2002 to see prices that low. And he thinks they’ll stick around a bit as well.
“May stick around for a week, maybe two. Where we are at this moment, I think we can sustain those prices.”
Wisconsin is currently seeing the cheapest gas in the nation.
Part of the reason is because people are not driving, so there’s little to no demand. When people do get back on the roads, we can expect prices to go up.
“But I don’t think we’re going to get up to an average of $2 a gallon this summer. But all of this is contingent on a completely unknown factor, and that’s how fast we will turn around from this and how fast we’ll recover.”
For the full interview with DeHaan on Wisconsin’s Morning News, click in the player above.