WASHINGTON — The average price U.S. drivers pay for gasoline shot past $3 a gallon and was just 1.5 cents away from the all-time record, the government said today.
The national price for regular unleaded gasoline rose 8.3 cents over the last week to $3.054 a gallon, the second-highest level ever and 14.5 cents more than a year ago, the federal Energy Information Administration said in its weekly survey of 800 service stations.
The latest pump price is 1.5 cents from EIA’s weekly survey record of $3.069 set in September 2005 after Hurricane Katrina disrupted petroleum supplies.
The much larger Lundberg survey of 7,000 stations showed that gasoline jumped 19.5 cents over the past two weeks to set a new record of $3.068 a gallon for that report.
Reuters via the Los Angeles Times
Average price in San Francisco: $3.549 a gallon.
For San Francisco Area gas station prices check http://www.sanfrangasprices.com/ links to other areas of California are on this site.
For the rest of the US the parent site http://www.gasbuddy.com/ has some station prices