Getting your player ready...
NEW YORK — Get ready for another surge in gasoline prices. Experts are predicting pump prices, which jumped by almost a dollar a gallon in each of the last two springs in many parts of the United States, will spike again.
The increases could push the average national price to a record $3.50 a gallon or more by June. Today’s average of just under $3 already is about 80 cents a gallon higher than year-ago levels.
Analysts say the bump is linked to a shortage of alkylate, a little- known and expensive gasoline additive.
The Associated Press
