Gas Prices Keep Heading North, Discontent Grows.
U.S. gas prices approached their highest level of the year Friday, after the national average rose another 3 cents overnight.
The nationwide average price is $4.46 per gallon. Friday’s price sits just 10 cents below the highest level hit earlier this year, on May 21, when the national average was $4.56 per gallon.
Gas prices are also once again within striking distance of their all-time highest level of $5.01, which was hit in June 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine.
Already, at least six states have average gas prices above $5. California has the highest in the nation, at $6.11 per gallon. A handful of other states, such as Michigan, Utah and Illinois, were on the cusp of hitting $5 Friday.
Gas prices overall have risen 50% nationwide since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28.
By Steve Kopack and Jason Abbruzzese, ‘NBC News’
Gas prices, gas prices, gas prices, there is no way around the fact they are very high and going higher causing great headaches for most everyone. The gas prices are causing the cost of a wide variety of products to increase significantly and make life seem out of reach for many across the Globe. The ability to rein in the prices is proving almost impossible as long as the war rages in oil producing heavy nations like Iran.
