Weather and global politics helped drive gasoline prices up nearly 13 cents a gallon on average nationwide in the past two weeks as the price of crude oil rose.
The national average for self-serve regular was $2.35 per gallon, up 12.8 cents since Feb. 9, industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday.
Salt Lake City had the cheapest gallon of gas in the country — a gallon of self-serve regular was $2.12. The highest average price in the nation for self-serve regular was in San Francisco at $2.84.
Carlisle area prices that had ranged from $2.12 to $2.19 per gallon in early February climbed to around $2.35 to $2.39 per gallon last weekend.
PennsylvaniaGasPrices.com documents a similar climb across the Keystone State, with the average price rising from $2.16 on Feb. 2 to nearly $2.34 on Sunday.
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