AAFES adjusts gas pricing overseas

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  • By Airman Bradley Kasch
  • Detachment 9, Air Force News Agency
Army and Air Force Exchange Service officials began a new gas-pricing plan Feb. 1 that should make buying gas overseas easier on a person's budget as prices are now updated on a weekly basis instead of monthly changes. 

The decision is based on customer feedback for more immediacy in the price changes, said Brett Buckley, the AAFES general manager in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

AAFES used to look at the way oil prices fluctuated during the previous month and deliver an average price. This kind of pricing means that at the end of the month there would be a drastic change that people weren't prepared for.

Now the weekly changes make the differences in prices a little less, so it is easier to budget. 

Prices are based on the current week's U.S. Department of Energy average price, said AAFES officials in Dallas.

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