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Customers fill up their vehicles with gas at the Conoco station off North Center Street on Thursday night in Casper. While the price of oil is down, many Wyoming consumers haven’t enjoyed a big drop at the pump. Wyomingites stopping to fill up their trucks with gas or diesel these days face a predicament that’s not common for the Cowboy State: It’d be cheaper down in Denver. The fall in crude prices of late should be a boon for people at the pump, whether for a business that reserves part of its budget for transport and trucking or a family traveling for the holidays. But in Wyoming, despite the plethora of oil wells and the refineries on the edge of Newcastle or Casper, gas prices haven’t come down as fast as they have in other parts of the country, even just across the border in Colorado. If you stop at the Conoco gas station where Interstate 25 passes over Center Street in north Casper, a gallon of regular gas will cost you about $2.80. The Rocky Mountain region’s average stood at about $2.65 last week, compared to $2.20 in the Midwest or $2.07 down by the Gulf Coast. Most […]
