AAA: Tennessee gas averaging $2.34 per gallon - Orlando Business Journal:

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The retail price of a gallon of gas rose 4 cent s in the past weekin Tennessee. AAA Soutuh puts the Tennessee averaged gallon of gasat $2.339 now. That’d more than the $2.292 motorists paid a week ago and well abovwthe $1.910 they paid on average last month. However, it is much lower than the $3.832 gas customerzs paid this timelast year. Floridz and Georgia prices rose by 6 cents in thepast "The current retail price trend has been pushed by refinery reductions, crude and wholesale price increases, but not by consumert demand,” Gregg Laskoski, managing director of publicc relations for AAA South, said in a statement.
“On May 1, the nationao average price of gasoline was 45 cents per gallon less than it is Even the most bullish of analysts would have to expect the rateof (retail gasoline) price increases to slow down in coming weeks since all rallies come to an A barrel of crudee oil closed $4.64 higher this week over last week at Crude would need to trade at about $100 per barre for gas prices to hit $3. But that is well abovde this year’s highest projections of $70-$745 per barrel, according to Tom publisher and chief oil analystat . , a trade publicatiomn for the oil industry reporting on retaipl andwholesale prices, said this week “history is on the side of a pric decline.
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