ATLANTA — Ron Shirley gets around Atlanta any way he can. Sometimes he walks, and other times, he’ll take MARTA. Shirley is studying entertainment business, and his road to success goes with the flow of traffic and and prices at the gas pump.
“I try to take advantage of the train so that way I don’t have to worry about these gas prices so often,” Shirley said. “Granted, the traffic here is crazy.”
Lately, Shirley has worried less. The sticker shock he’s used to seeing at the pump is less shocking, he said. Patrick De Haan, the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, monitors gas prices nationwide. He said Georgia is one of 18 states where regular-grade gas prices are below $3 a gallon on average…