Maryland Drivers See Week Of Price Increases At The Gas Pump

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — There’s been nary terms interruption astatine the state pump for Maryland drivers. We’ve seen increases crossed the authorities this past week.

The mean $3.09 a gallon was up six cents from a week earlier and 9 cents successful the past month.

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AAA said you are paying much astatine the pump due to the fact that crude lipid is high, arsenic is the demand.

The bureau thinks prices volition enactment supra $3 for the remainder of the summer.

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“There are factors successful play that motorists person precise small power of. We are surely seeing much demand, arsenic acold arsenic radical wanting to get backmost connected the roads. Obviously, determination are concerns with the Delta variant. But that being said, we haven’t seen a alteration tremendously of radical having that tendency to question still,” said Ragina C. Ali, spokeswoman for AAA-MidAtlantic.

Whether you are taking a roadworthy travel oregon staying section this summer, AAA is making it easier to find state stations with the cheapest prices.

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CBS Baltimore Staff