Gas prices ease in Midwestern states
Less expensive crude oil from Canada and North Dakota is easing the pain at the pump for residents of Minnesota and other Midwestern states.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Less expensive crude oil from Canada and North Dakota is easing the pain at the pump for residents of Minnesota and other Midwestern states.
The price gap for regular unleaded between Minnesota and California is 75 cents, the biggest between the two states since 2009. AAA said the average price in Minnesota this week is about $3.60 a gallon. California prices have been above $4 a gallon for weeks.
Jake Reint of the Flint Hills Resources refinery told the Star Tribune Minnesota is “geographically blessed” to have access to reliable and abundant supplies of crude oil. Flint Hills in Rosemount and Minnesota’s other refinery, Northern Tier Energy in St. Paul Park, get most of their oil by pipeline from Canada and the Bakken region in North Dakota.
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