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Expert expects 20-cent gasoline price drop

A worker lowers gas prices at an Arco

Photo credit: AP File | A worker lowers gas prices at an Arco gas station in Mountain View, Calif. (August 18, 2009)

Gasoline prices seem to have begun their usual end-of-summer decline, dropping so far by just a few cents a gallon.

At least one expert thinks they'll drop by as much as 20 cents a gallon in coming weeks, firm up for a time as refineries shut down for maintenance and the switch to winter-grade gasolines and heating fuels, then decline more around the holiday season.

"What we're seeing...

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