Wisconsin Shell Station Had 'Cheapest Gas In U.S.' Friday

MILWAUKEE, WI — It's not a typo, and a clerk didn't enter the price incorrectly. A Shell gas station in Francis Creek, a tiny village located in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, is selling gas for 75 cents per gallon.

According to Patrick De Haan of Gas Buddy, a website dedicated to tracking gas prices, the Francis Creek location's price Friday morning was the lowest in the U.S.

Prices have been falling for weeks, De Haan said.

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“With another drop in the national average from a week ago, we’ve made it eight straight weeks of decline, and for the first time in GasBuddy’s 20 year history, we have two cities that are averaging under $1 per gallon. That’s right- not a single station under $1, but the entire city average. Truly unprecedented demand destruction has been dismantling expensive gas prices everywhere,” he wrote on the Gas Buddy blog.

In fact, Gasbuddy predicted this would happen in Wisconsin, citing a drop in demand for fuel. "Prices are particularly soft around the Great Lakes because there's no easy way to unload extra supply," De Haan said last month in a MarketWatch report. "The only real way is to offer discounts, and that's the state we're in today."

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