Relief at last: AAFES to drop gas price by 40 percent

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Relief at last: AAFES to drop gas price by 40 percent
By David Allen, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Thursday, November 27, 2008

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — People who buy gasoline on bases in mainland Japan and Okinawa will have a little more green to buy other things on Black Friday.

On the traditional big shopping day after Thanksgiving, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service is dropping its price for midgrade unleaded gas for the first time since it shot up to $4.06 per gallon in July.

The price for a gallon of midgrade unleaded will be pegged at $2.43, a $1.63 decrease, AAFES announced Tuesday. Prices at Navy Exchanges follow those set by AAFES.

The 40 percent reduction, however, still leaves prices 40 cents higher than the $2.03 average cost for midgrade unleaded in the United States, according to Department of Energy figures.

Nevertheless, word of the decrease had customers ecstatic.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=59069



uhc comment: Price of regular unleaded in Boston yesterday --> $1.859