Gas sets another economic-battering-ram of a record
USA TODAY, May, 2008 by James R. Healey
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The average price of gasoline jumped to $3.722 a gallon, the government said Monday, up a hefty 10.9 cents in a week and the fourth consecutive record.
Diesel, the fuel of semi trucks, delivery vans and railroad locomotives, shot up 18.2 cents to $4.331 per gallon, guaranteeing higher shipping costs that could boost the price of everything from TVs to tostadas.
Expensive fuel "is acting like a battering ram knocking at the economy," says Peter Beutel, head of energy-price consultant Cameron Hanover.
"It keeps marching upward as we see these crude oil prices continuing to defy gravity," says Jon Cogan, spokesman for the U.S. Energy Information Administration, which conducts the weekly fuel-price survey.
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