Sunday, 15 July 2007

Gasoline Pump Price in U.S. Rises 6 cents to $3.06, Lundberg Poll Finds

(Bloomberg) -- The price of gasoline at the pump in
the U.S. rose 6 cents during the past three weeks to an average
$3.06 a gallon, Trilby Lundberg said, citing her survey of 7,000
filling stations nationwide.

Gasoline is getting a boost from crude oil prices, which are
up 4.6 percent this month on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Crude oil for August delivery ended last week at an 11-month high
of $73.93 a barrel on the Nymex after Chevron Corp. and
ConocoPhillips said they lost output from North Sea fields
because of a pipeline shutdown.


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News

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