Monday, February 20, 2012

Gas prices

  • Ron Klain is a senior executive with a private investment firm in Washington.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • The high price of gas is fueling frustrations at the pump in South Florida. Its outrageous but we gotta pay, a Miami cab driver was overheard saying as he pulled up to a gas station where a gallon of regular was $4.39.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • NEW YORK — Gasoline prices have never been higher this time of the year. Averaging $3.53 a gallon nationally, prices already are up 25 cents since Jan. 1. Experts say they could reach a record $4.25 a gallon by late April.
  • (Chicago Sun-Times)
  • Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich dangled the prospect Monday of gas as low as $2 a gallon if hes elected. The former House speaker has spoken in the past of gas dropping to $2.50 a gallon under a Gingrich administration.
  • (ABC News)
  • SEATTLE -- As high as gas prices are right now in the Pacific Northwest, brace yourself for worse. Between international crude oil prices and the Cherry Point refinery fire last week, well likely see a big jump in prices in the coming days and weeks.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • WASHINGTON -- Just as the recovery is finally looking real, surging fuel prices are once again looming as a major threat to the financial health of U.S. consumers and the broader economy.
  • (The News & Observer)
  • The average price for regular unleaded has climbed above $4 a gallon across the state. Thats a 20 cent increase in the last week according to AAA, and a whopping 32 cent increase in the last month.
  • (Abc Local Web)
  • SALT LAKE CITY -- Gas prices hit record highs today and may go even higher, possibly reaching $5 per gallon by summertime. That would be the most that gas has ever cost in this country, and if it goes that high, the economic recovery could slow.
  • (ksl.com)
  • SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- We may see $5 a gallon gas by summer. Prices have already soared 18 cents per gallon in just the last month, to an average of $4 per gallon.
  • (Abc Local Web)
  • SEATTLE -- The AAA auto club reports the average price of a gallon of gasoline in Washington is $3.64. Thats up 11 cents in a week, 17 cents in a month and 29 cents in a year. Its 7 cents higher than the national average.
  • (KOMO News)

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