Gas prices continue to remain low across county, U.S.

Some good news if you're about to fill up for the week gas prices across the country are about 50 cents lower now than they were this time last year.

A new analysis shows gas prices went up less than one cent over the last weeks across the country. At $2.25 a gallon that's 56 cents less than this time a year ago.

Locally the average price of gas is about $2.89 a gallon. According to GasBuddy the Shell station in Buttonwillow has the lowest price at $2.53 a gallon in Kern County. And in Bakersfield Gasco on Chester is coming in at $2.55 a gallon.