May 8, 2008
New records for gas prices
After a week of laying low, and not setting any new records, gas prices in the Roanoke metro rose to another high on Thursday at $3.54 per gallon, according to AAA.
At the same time, a new record was set for gasoline prices at the national level. This is from the Associated Press:
Gas prices jumped nearly 3 cents overnight to a new national record of nearly $3.65 a gallon Thursday, while oil prices paused from their own climb to record highs and succumbed to mild profit-taking. At the pump, the average price of a gallon of regular gas nationwide rose 2.7 cents to a record $3.645, according to a survey of stations by AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. Diesel prices also rose, adding 0.9 cent to match a record national average of $4.251 a gallon.
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