According to Lundberg Survey, average gas prices have risen over 12 cents over the past two weeks. The gas price is 30.87 cents higher than a year earlier when the average was $3.50.
Gasoline consumption in the US slipped 1.2 percent, and the amount of the fuel supplied by refineries over the past four weeks was 7.8 percent less than a year earlier.
“As refineries complete their maintenance, overall motor-gasoline supply will become more generous, and this will probably put a stop to the price rise,” Lundberg Survey’s president Trilby Lundberg said. “This of course depends on whether crude-oil prices cooperate.”
Global oil prices have continually climbed this year following Iran’s move to cut oil sales to British and French firms in reaction to the EU’s anti-Iran embargos. Tehran has also announced it may halt oil exports to more European countries.
EU foreign ministers approved sanctions against Iran on January 23, including a ban on Iranian oil imports, a freeze on the assets of the country’s Central Bank within EU states and a ban on selling diamonds, gold, and other precious metals to Tehran.
A newly released report by the Business Insider says if the flow of Iran’s oil exports is disrupted, the main importers of the country’s crude will be hit the hardest.
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