After a steep drop in the last week of August, Florida drivers will hit the road on Labor Day Weekend paying the lowest holiday gas prices since the onset of the COVID pandemic in 2020.

The state average for regular unleaded stood at $3.11 per gallon on Friday, according to AAA — The Auto Club Group , well below last year’s $3.30 and far from the record high of $4.89 set in June 2022.

Nationally, gas averages $3.20 on Friday morning, also the cheapest since 2020, when demand collapsed during lockdowns.

Prices did jump this week, by nearly 20 cents in Florida, following flooding that temporarily knocked offline the BP Whiting Refinery in Indiana, the Midwest’s largest. That outage drove the national average up more than 7 cents to $3.21, according to AAA.

Still, the

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