New analysis from GasBuddy.com suggests Americans had to put in nearly two hours of labor to fill up their tank with gasoline this summer.
The company uses the average wages across the nation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to make that determination, according to head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, Patrick DeHaan.
"In 2018, it'll take you about an hour and 48 minutes of hard work to fill that tank. That's up from about an hour and a half from 2016. So overall, prices have been a little bit higher than they've been, but all things considered, it's not a terrible Labor Day weekend," he said.
DeHaan says compare that to 2014 when gas was $3.50 a gallon, and it took nearly nearly two and a half hours of labor to make enough money to fill up the tank.
Before that, in 2008, motorists had to work almost three hours to fill their tanks because gas averaged $3.84 a gallon.
DeHaan says the national average is around $2.83 a gallon currently, and as summer wraps up, gas prices will trend lower.
He says expect lower gas prices this fall, but the price will start to surge again next February, and it appears the national average for 2019 could return to that three dollar a gallon mark.