The average retail gasoline price in Colorado shot up 6.8 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.49 a gallon on Sunday, according to the gasoline price website .
Prices Sunday in Colorado were 80.6 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 2.4 cents per gallon lower than a month ago.
Across the country, the national average increased 6.3 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.49 a gallon – the same average found in Colorado.
The national average has decreased 12 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 66.3 cents per gallon higher than a year ago.
“Highlighting what I’ve reiterated for weeks, we’re seeing gasoline prices continue their volatile trend, and this time that trend is upward,” said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst for .
“But I do expect over the next week, we’ll see a continued rise in gasoline prices. Prices will rise slowest in the Rockies, while moving fastest in the Great Lakes.”
DeHaan said that wholesale gasoline prices are now at their highest since early September.
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Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939 or hpankratz@denverpost.com.
