Average Price For Gasoline On Maui Hits $4/Gallon - MSNBC

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WAILUKU, Hawaii - The average price of regular gasoline on Maui island has reached a record $4 a gallon.

Wailuku is the first area in the nation tracked by AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report to hit the $4 mark. In the remote coastal town of Hana, the price is around $4.55 a gallon.

Maui's average is up about half a cent from Wednesday, 5.7 cents from a month ago and about 74 cents from a year ago.

The state's average stands at $3.67, about a penny shy of the record high set in September 2005. California leads the nation with an average of $3.75.

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[Andy823]

1. I live in rural Washington state

Price went up on Monday, again on Wednesday, and again today for total of a 15 cent increase this week. Prices are now at $3.69 for regular gas. Diesel was $4.24 a gallon on Monday, has been for a few weeks now, but today it went up to $4.50!

$3.69 is the record so we are tied for gas, but diesel has never been over $3.89, which was last winter. It's crazy! Demand is down, and expected to go down even further, but investors are jacking the prices of oil up hoping for a killing on the markets, while big oil is producing less gas in order to keep supplies low and prices high.

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2. $4.50 for diesel?!?

Holy crap!