Overnight Price Jump Causes Gas Pain At The Pump

Pain at the Pump

MOBILE, Ala. Sept. 30 - Suffering gas pains: prices at the pump take a noticeable jump overnight.

What's driving this increase? And when could see these prices go downhill?

What a difference one day makes: the average cost of a gallon of gasoline rose three cents Friday nationwide from just yesterday, and increased even more than that close to home.

The national average for regular unleaded on Friday: $2.84 a gallon. In Mobile, a gallon rang up Friday to the highest price recorded here so far: almost $2.80 a gallon, up from $2.76 on Thursday.

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