Tennessee Gas Prices are holding steady at $2.30 per gallon. Today's average is the same as last week, five cents lower than last month and 24 cents less than one year ago.

The national average is $2.60 which is unchanged from last week, but six cents cheaper than last month and 16-cents cheaper than last year at this time.

"Gas prices continue to fluctuate across the country, though on the week the majority of states saw prices only increase or decrease by one or two cents," said Jeanette Casselano, AAA spokesperson. "The largest volatility at the pump continues to be seen in the West Coast & Rockies states along with a handful of states in the Great Lakes and Central region."

At the close of Friday's formal trading session on the NYMEX, WTI increased by $2.02 to settle at $56.20. Although crude prices rose sharply on Friday, they mostly fell last week after EIA's report showed that total domestic crude inventories increased by 5.7 million bbl last week, bringing the new total to 438.9 million bbl. The current level is 12.8 million bbl higher than last year's level at this same time. Prices increased on Friday after the market expressed relief following U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross' announcement that the U.S. and China, the two largest oil-consuming countries in the world, are on track to complete phase one of their trade negotiations and a deal would likely be signed around mid-November. If trade tensions continue to subside, crude prices may continue to increase this week.