The national average price for regular gas kept soaring on Wednesday, rising to a new yearly high of $4.229 per gallon, according to AAA. This is a greater-than-5-cent-per-gallon increase from Tuesday and more than 20 cents per gallon more expensive than just a week ago.
Wednesday’s new yearly high gas price came just a week after a monthly low of $4.02 per gallon for April fuel costs. It’s the latest price point in fluctuating gas prices which have changed significantly over the last 30 days. In addition to the change mentioned above over the last week, a month ago, a gallon of regular gas cost just $3.98. Today’s national average pricing was also the sixth consecutive day of increases at the pumps. Before that, gas prices had dropped for nine straight days.
Wednesday’s gas price average and new monthly and yearly highs for fuel came just 10 days after Secretary of Energy
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