AAA says regular gasoline is averaging $2.524 across the country today, a record and up 20 cents in the past month.
The price of regular gasoline has to get to about $2.90 before surpassing the all-time high set in 1981 (in inflation-adjusted dollars).
Should be soon.
I paid $2.85 today, which meant that for the first time in my life I paid more than fifty bucks ($50.84) to fill up the tank. Insane.
National average up 4 cents since yesterday to $2.564.
Up another two cents Thursday morning.
AAA says this morning that the national average price for regular gasoline is $2.601. That’s up 29 cents in a month.