COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – As the week begins, Branch County and most of Michigan is enjoying far lower gas prices than the national average. AAA Michigan reports that state gas prices dropped 11 cents to $2.30 on average while they climbed 21-cents in the past two weeks to a national average of nearly $2.54 a gallon.
National pollster Trilby Lundberg is blaming a switch to higher cost summer blend gasolines as well as a strike at some of the nation’s largest refineries. Gas at some stations in West Michigan were among the lowest in the nation at $2.15 Sunday evening.
