Triple-A reports gas prices going higher and higher

Washington-AP -- Gasoline prices have been on a tear, and the Triple-A says they could hit record levels before long.

The auto club's latest monthly survey shows the average price nation-wide has jumped 15 cents a gallon since mid-March. In some places, especially around the Great Lakes, gas has surged by more than 25 cents a gallon in the past month.

And, based on recent increases in wholesale fuel costs, Triple-A says U-S motorists could soon see the highest prices ever at the gas pumps -- in the range of a dollar-70 per gallon, on average.

Triple-A spokesman Geoff (JEHF) Sundstrom says drivers should prepare now for spending a larger portion of the family budget on fuel. And, vehicles should be properly maintained so they don't use more gas than they should.

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The saddest part of this is that, even if the pollution regulators removed all of the asinine, nit-picking clean-gasoline regulations immediately, the refiners would still not have time to adjust and provide enough gasoline for the summer driving season.

Get ready, everybody, to pay through the nose.

-- RogerT (rogerT@c-zone.net), April 21, 2001.