Gasoline available for as low as $2.09 in the Valley

If you are about to fill up your tank for that Thanksgiving trip to grandma's house, you might pull up to a pump in Trumbull or Columbiana Counties and don't wait until Black Friday.

Those areas have some of the cheapest gas in Ohio according to AAA with prices ranging from $2.19 to $2.32 a gallon for regular.

In spite of a 25 cent drop in gasoline prices since October, Thanksgiving gas prices will be around the country are the highest since 2014 according to the website GasBuddy.com.

GasBuddy projects the national average gas price this Thanksgiving will be $2.57 per gallon. The last Thanksgiving day when gas prices were more expensive was in 2014 when the national average was $2.79 per gallon.

Don't wait to fill up. GasBuddy analyzed gas price data and found that Monday offers the lowest average gas price in 21 states, making it the best day to fill-up. The day with the most expensive average gas prices: Friday.

Although prices are higher than previous years, seasonal declines have now hit every state in the country and may accelerate in the days leading into Thanksgiving.

Gas prices in Northeast Ohio are fractions of a penny cheaper this week at $2.421 per gallon, according to AAA East Central's Gas Price Report.

Prices of the unleaded self-service gasoline in various areas as of 5:30 am Tuesday from GasBuddy.com:

Oil prices mostly dropped last week as the government reported that crude inventories continue to build, now for the eighth consecutive week.