新闻来源：www.nytimes.com
原文地址：Gas Prices Are Falling, a Win in Fight Against Inflation
新闻日期：2024-09-11
美国汽油和柴油价格继续下降，这给减少通胀带来了好消息。根据能源信息管理局的数据，2023年8月一加仑常规汽油的平均价格为3.39美元，同比下降了近12%；而柴油价格则下降得更多，同比下跌约15%，达到每加仑3.70美元。进入9月份后，这些降价趋势仍在继续。据美国汽车协会（AAA）报道，周二一加仑常规汽油的平均价格为3.26美元。
这些降幅部分反映了原油价格的下降。此外，美国人在今年使用的汽油和柴油比去年少，联邦数据显示了这一点。“美国人的通勤已经不同于以往，”GasBuddy公司的石油分析负责人Patrick De Haan表示，“我不知道它是否会恢复到过去的样子。”
总体来看，能源价格（包括燃料、电力和天然气）在8月份环比下降0.8%，同比下降4%。所有类型汽油的平均价格在过去12个月里大幅下跌了10.3%。
美国原油价格从8月末每桶约75美元降至了本周二的66美元/桶，这一变化部分归因于中国经济放缓和美国及其他国家生产商提供的丰富供应。上周，石油输出国组织（OPEC）同意推迟增产计划，直到至少12月，但这一决定似乎没有达到预期效果，原油价格继续下跌。
原文摘要：
The cost of gasoline and diesel has been falling in the United States, welcome news for efforts to reduce inflation.A gallon of regular gasoline in August cost an average of $3.39, down nearly 12 percent from a year earlier, according to the Energy Information Administration. Diesel prices fell even further — around 15 percent year-over-year — to $3.70 a gallon last month. Prices have continued sliding in September, and the average price of regular gasoline on Tuesday was $3.26 a gallon, according to the AAA motor club.Those declines partly reflect sliding oil prices. Americans also have been using less gasoline and diesel this year than they did last year, federal data show.“The American commute is just not what it was, and I don’t know if it’ll ever get back there,” said Patrick De Haan, the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, a company that tracks fuel prices.Overall, energy prices, a category that includes fuel, electricity and natural gas, fell 0.8 percent on a monthly basis in August and 4 percent from a year earlier, according to the Consumer Price Index report released on Wednesday. Average prices for all types of gasoline fell a whopping 10.3 percent over the past 12 months.U.S. oil prices, which were a touch below $75 a barrel at the end of August, have tumbled further in the past 10 days, sagging to around $66 a barrel on Tuesday amid concerns the world may soon have more crude than it needs. Oil now costs roughly half what it did in late spring 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine.Markets have grown particularly jittery about weakening oil demand in China and robust supply from producers in the United States and elsewhere. Last week, as prices were falling, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the oil cartel, agreed to delay plans to increase production until at least December.But the move does not appear to have had the intended effect, and prices have continued to fall.
