We Found These Prices Citgo - Pleasantburg at Rutherford Road, Greenville - $1.959 Sunoco - East North Street and Pleasantburg Drive, Greenville - $1.999 Breaker's Shell - East North Street, Greenville - $1.999 Business Staff The average gas price of gasoline in the Upstate has dropped nearly 5 cents a gallon in the past week, according to AAA. Motorists in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson metropolitan area today are paying an average price of $1.957 a gallon for regular unleaded gas, down from $1.98 on Thursday. Gas in the metro area is significantly less than it was a month ago, when it was $3.027 and a year ago, when it was $2.954 a gallon. Statewide average prices also declined to $2.003 today, down from $2.027 on the previous day. Elsewhere in the state’s metro areas, Charleston reported average prices of $2.064 a gallon, down from $2.101 on Thursday. Columbia’s average price was $1.975, down from $1.992. And Myrtle Beach posted an average price of $2.023, down from $2.032 on Thursday. Nationally, the average price of gas hit $2.152 today, down from $2.178 on Thursday. Crude oil prices fell on Friday, a day after slumping close to $50 dollars, despite growing expectations the OPEC crude exporters' cartel could cut output again later this month, traders said. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light sweet crude for December delivery fell 82 cents to $57.42 a barrel, after hitting $54.67 Thursday, levels last seen in January 2007. Brent North Sea crude for January fell 99 cents to $55.25 dollars on London's InterContinental Exchange.

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