Gas prices around Rome this afternoon have continued to drop, which has been leaving some consumers with a bit of a smile on their face as they fill up at the pump.
Karri Grissett of Cave Spring was much happier with the price of gas as she filled up at the Kroger Gas Station on Turner McCall around 1:15 p.m. with the price of regular unleaded sitting at $2.39. After watching them spike in September during the gas shortage scare, she said that she was glad to see them lower with her daily commute.
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"I'm hoping they go lower," she said. "And I don't really seem them going back up anytime soon."
But she said that they still had a hold on her family budget.
"Because I drive from Cave Spring to Rome every day, and my husband drives to Cartersville, it's still hard," she said.
Other Romans like Debi Lewis, who filled up at the BP station on Highway 411 and Chulio Road, said that she was glad prices had been going down, where it was $2.35 a gallon for regular when she filled up.
"We drive a lot of long trips, so it was nice to have it come back down before we drove to Kentucky this weekend," she said.
She also wasn't afraid they would go back up anytime soon, but she has kept that thought in the back of her head.
"We have a son in Vermont, so I was worried for a while that it would go up so high we couldn't drive to go see him," she said.
Station attendants at both the Kroger and the BP said that customers have been happy to see the prices drop, and that they didn't know how much further they would go down.
Prices this afternoon at stations around East and West Rome were averaging $2.39 a gallon, but some were as low as $2.35 a gallon like the East Rome Wal-Mart were at $2.35. Gas prices on Saturday were in the $2.40 range, and Friday in the $2.50 range.
K.B. Patel, who works at the BP, said that business still hasn't picked up since the gas scare, which he believed was attributed to the economy.
"It's been pretty much the same sales," he said.
Wendy Gomez, who works at the Kroger gas station, said this afternoon that she didn't know how much further prices would continue to drop.
But, she said, the customers are "definitely happier."
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