Gasoline Prices Rise, Lundberg Says
.S. regular gasoline pump prices rose 10 cents from Sept. 26 through Sunday to an average of $2.91 a gallon, analyst Trilby Lundberg said in her semimonthly Lunbderg Survey of filling stations.
The increase reflects disruptions to U.S. refinery output from Hurricane Rita, which struck the Texas-Louisiana border on Sept. 24, Lundberg told Bloomberg.
Prices had fallen during the previous two weeks as supplies recovered from Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall on Aug. 29.
The highest price for self-serve regular gasoline was in Honolulu at $3.38 a gallon. The lowest was in Anchorage, Alaska, at $2.65.
Because of the Columbus Day federal holiday Monday, the Energy Department will release its weekly survey Tuesday this week.
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