Gasoline prices and utility gas in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue area in February fell, while households are paying more for electricity than last February as energy prices saw mixed results in the area, according toGas prices averaged $4.225 per gallon in the Seattle area in February, the BLS stated. That’s 3.9% lower than February 2023, but 21.2% higher than the $3.486 national average.
In the past five years, prices paid by Seattle area consumers for electricity were less than the U.S. average by 16.8% or more in the month of February., a federal government agency, previously noted, the state of Washington has some of the lowest average electricity rates in the country.
That $1.146 per therm price is also 21.8% less than the national average in February 2024 .In the Seattle area over the past five years, the per therm cost for natural gas in February has varied between 21.8 percent below and 8.3 percent above the U.S. average.natural gas energy use is declining,