BoatBanter.com - Gasoline prices - another record high

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Harry Krause wrote:

Gas prices up to record high
Two cent rise in national average surpasses Katrina high, but end to
climb is seen
July 23 2006: 2:56 PM EDT

ATLANTA (CNN) -- Gas prices rose nearly two cents over the past two
weeks, to a record high of $3.02 per gallon of self-serve regular, a
national survey reported Sunday.

The survey, carried out July 7 and July 21, tallied prices at about
5,000 gas stations and found that self-serve regular rose 1.98 cents per
gallon, to a national average of $3.0150, said Trilby Lundberg,
publisher of the "Lundberg Survey."

Sunday's uptick bests by a third of a penny the prior record, which was
set last Sept. 9 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Lundberg said.

But, adjusted for inflation, Sunday's price remains 15 cents lower than
what it was in March 1981, she added.

And, given that demand in recent days has been flat or shrinking, prices
are unlikely to continue upward, Lundberg suggested. "The overall
gasoline supply is not tight," she said.

The trend in gas prices typically follows that of crude, and crude
prices for West Texas Intermediate slipped on the NYMEX from more than
$77 per barrel on July 14 to $74.43 last week, she said.

Absent storms resulting in damage to refineries -- as occurred last year
with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita -- or new threats to world oil
supplies, prices should drop, she said.

Sunday's poll found that drivers in Charleston, S.C., paid the least, at
an average of $2.77 per gallon; drivers in San Diego, Calif., paid the
most, at $3.28.

Here are some other prices:

-- Atlanta: $3.00

-- Charleston, W. Va.: $2.99

-- Houston: $2.93

-- Milwaukee: $3.20

-- Omaha, Neb.: $2.92

-- Salt Lake City: $2.80

-- Seattle: $3.02

-- Wilmington, Del.: $3.12

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