CAMARILLO, Calif. - The average price of regular gasoline in the United States has jumped 2.86 cents over a two-week period to $2.68.
That's according to the national Lundberg Survey of fuel prices released Sunday.
Analyst Trilby Lundberg says the average price for a gallon of mid-grade was $2.81. Premium was at $2.93.
Tucson, Ariz., had the lowest average price among cities surveyed at $2.36 a gallon for regular. Anchorage was the highest at $3.30.
In California, prices were down slightly. A gallon of regular cost an average of $2.96.
Fresno had the state's least expensive gas at $2.83 a gallon. San Francisco remained the steepest at $3.04.
Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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