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State drivers enjoying lowest seasonal gas prices in 12 years

INTRO – North Carolinians are enjoying the lowest July gas prices in 12 years. George Olsen has more.

AAA Carolinas reports the average price of a gallon of regular is $2.05, down from $2.21 a month ago and 55 cents lower than a year ago. A press release from the Charlotte-based motor club says those are the lowest seasonal prices in 12 years. AAA is predicting prices to stay relatively low throughout the summer as U-S crude supplies are 13 percent higher than a year ago and gasoline stocks stand at 240 million barrels, the highest ever mark for gas supplies in the month of July. That prediction could be disrupted by a variety of factors including the Atlantic hurricane season picking up or geopolitical tensions overseas. I’m George Olsen.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.