 Separately, the administration also plans to retain protections for 28 million acres of Alaskan land that the Trump administration had tried to open up to mining and drilling. Lillian Wu, Fox News. The price of oil barely budging this morning. It's still at $81 and change per barrel. Gas also not moving. It's unchanged. After rising in nickel the last three days, AAA's national average for regular gas remains $3.50 per gallon.