2-23-2013
http://www.fool.com/investing/genera...x#.UrjfQLSmYlQ
2014 Gasoline Price Forecast
There's some good news this holiday season. 
Thanks to America's  energy boom we will likely be paying less at the pump in 2014. 
Overall,  gasoline prices are forecast in 2014 to decline to an average  of $3.43  per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency.  That's  $0.07 lower than this year's average and $0.20 lower than  Americans paid  on average for a gallon in 2012. 
 
The following chart from the EIA shows that we can expect gas prices  to  stay about where they are for the next month or so. After that, gas   prices are forecast to heat up as they do every year along with the   weather.
What's different for the coming year is that the EIA's forecast doesn't   predict a pronounced spike during the summer driving season. While the   seasonal pickup is inevitable, continued oil production growth from   North Dakota and Texas are expected to make the U.S. less dependent on   more expensive foreign oil. 
This, along with an increase in  fuel-efficient vehicles and the 
disappearing American driver, are making the summer spikes less pronounced.
Gasoline exports keeping prices elevated
 
An  interesting trend has developed over the past few years that now has   America becoming a net exporter of refined petroleum products like   gasoline. Both Valero and Phillips 66 are investing to grow export   capacity in order to sell cheaper American gasoline and diesel to the   international marketplace. This actually acts as a headwind to gas   prices and counter balances some of the effect of lower crude oil   prices.
 
In fact, over the past few years exports of U.S. refined products  have  gone from a million barrels per day to more than 3 million barrels  per  day. 
We're using less gasoline in the U.S. due to energy efficiency  gains as  well as the lingering economic effects of the last recession.  Those  two trends would have made 
gas prices much cheaper if we weren't  shipping our excess gasoline outside our borders. 
It's quite possible  that if it weren't for the U.S. being a net  exporter of gasoline and  other refined products that the price  Americans pay at the pump would be  even cheaper in 2014. 		
	
		
	
	
		
		
			I don't know what's worse. Dave, or the people trying to correct him. You are wasting your breath. Worse, you are just feeding the stupidity.
He is entertaining though. Let's go Dave. $6 by this spring!
		
		
	 
Remember the OP, the so called experts said 
"What's different for the coming year is that the EIA's forecast doesn't   predict a pronounced spike during the summer driving season"