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January 23, 2006 8:35 AM, EST

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he national average price for self-serve regular unleaded gasoline rose 3.1 cents to $2.332 over the past two weeks, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of filling stations released Sunday.

The price was 45.7 cents higher than a year ago, when a gallon was at $1.875, Lundberg’s figures showed.

Analyst Trilby Lundberg told the Associated Press prices were more likely to continue to rise than to fall or remain flat.

Crude oil prices jumped more than 7% last week, closing at a four-month high on Friday above $68 a barrel, Bloomberg reported. Crude prices hit an all-time high of $70.85 a barrel on Aug. 30, immediately following Hurricane Katrina’s landfall near New Orleans.

Honolulu had the highest average price at $2.80 a gallon, while the lowest price was $2.10, in Portland, Ore.