{"id":354004,"date":"2010-02-23T14:19:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T19:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/experts-gas-prices-in-chicago-to-top-3"},"modified":"2010-02-23T14:19:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T19:19:45","slug":"experts-gas-prices-in-chicago-to-top-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/354004","title":{"rendered":"Experts: Gas prices in Chicago to top $3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Gas prices are headed up to above $3 a gallon for regular, and experts say it isn’t because of higher demand.<\/p>\n

The average per-gallon price of unleaded regular gasoline in Chicago jumped 10 cents in the last week to $2.82, which is 84 cents higher than a year ago, according to AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express.<\/p>\n

Nationally, the price is $2.65 a gallon, up 3 cents a gallon from last week and 73 cents a gallon higher than a year ago. <\/span><\/p>\n

Pump prices typically rise this time of year as refineries switch to a more expensive grade of gas.<\/p>\n

But prices are climbing even after millions of Americans got pink slips and kept their cars in the driveway.<\/p>\n

What’s pushing prices higher is the crude oil that’s used to make motor fuel, said Fred Rozell of the Oil Price Information Service.<\/p>\n

Crude is an international commodity that has become ever more expensive as demand grows in China.<\/p>\n

As crude prices increase, so do gas gas prices.<\/p>\n

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Gas prices are headed up to above $3 a gallon for regular, and experts say it isn’t because of higher demand. The average per-gallon price of unleaded regular gasoline in Chicago jumped 10 cents in the last week to $2.82, which is 84 cents higher than a year ago, according to AAA, the Oil Price […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}