As summer nears, cost of gas is heating up

Courtesy MSNBC.com: Business  Thu, 05/21/2009 - 15:47

On Thursday, a gallon of unleaded averaged $2.36 nationally.<br /><br />That’s much cheaper than the $3.80 it cost this time last year, but prices are still up about 30 cents a gallon this month, enough to make drivers flinch.As tens of millions tank up and hit the road for Memorial Day weekend, gas prices are rising fast enough to revive painful memories of the $4-a-gallon summer of 2008.



 

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