Average retail gasoline prices have fallen 3.7 cents per gallon last week in New York, including St. Lawrence County, where the average price per gallon of gas is around $2.75.

The average price of gas last week statewide was $2.80 per gallon, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 6,118 gas outlets in New York. This compares with the national average that has fallen 5.4 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.60 per gallon, according GasBuddy.com.

The cheapest gas listed on Gasbuddy.com for St. Lawrence County is available at BJs, 6100 St. Lawrence Centre in Massena. The price on Tuesday was $2.66 per gallon. Valero, located at the corner of State Highway 56 and State Highway 310 near Massena, is selling gas for $2.76 and Stewarts, 10211 State Highway 56, was listed as selling gas for $2.79 per gallon.

In Potsdam gas prices range from $2.73 at Lamphere’s Market, 2798 State Highway 11B, which is about 15 minutes outside of the village. In town, Sunoco, 147 Market St., was listed at $2.79 and North Country Oil Change was selling gas for $2.83.

The lowest three listed prices on Gasbuddy for the Ogdensburg area is $2.74. Those gas stations are Sunoco, 728 Canton St., and a pair of Nice N Easy locations on New York Avenue and Champlain Street.

Including the change in gas prices in New York during the past week, prices were 96.9 cents per gallon lower than the same day one year ago and are 13.0 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has decreased 16.2 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 87.9 cents per gallon lower than this time one year ago.

"The powerful combination of declining crude oil prices and robust production from U.S. refineries continues to pummel retail gasoline prices nationwide and it's a trend we expect to continue," said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst with GasBuddy. "With West Texas Intermediate slipping to $43.75 per barrel on Friday and refineries exceeding 17 million barrels per day in each of the past four weeks, a level that hasn't been reached since the Energy Information Administration began publishing the data in 1990, that explains why the national average price of gas shed 6 cents per gallon in the past week," DeHaan noted.

"Even with the extraordinary price spikes in California earlier this summer that inflated the national average, improving conditions there have brought the state average from its mid-July peak at $3.90 down to $3.60 today and that average is 31 cents less than what Californians were looking at last year," added Gregg Laskoski, another senior petroleum analyst with GasBuddy. "Overall Americans are paying 88 cents per gallon less than what we were paying a year ago and some states like Indiana and Kentucky are saving more than $1 gallon versus last year at this time."