Lower gas costs help slow metro area inflation
Customers pump gasoline at the Gulf station at the North LIE Service Road and Old Nichols Road in Ronkonkoma. (April 4, 2012) Credit: Newsday / John Paraskevas
Prices in the metropolitan area rose 1.4 percent last month compared with a year ago, identical to April’s growth rate.
The cost of gasoline fell 5.8 percent year over year. Electricity rose 1.3 percent and natural gas, 11.9 percent.
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