While Natural Gas Prices Fall, Gasoline Rises

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

February 16, 2012 | 2:57 PM

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We’ve spent a lot of time covering how shale drilling has led to record-low natural gas prices.
But that other type of gas – gasoline – keeps getting more and more expensive at Pennsylvania fueling stations, as the Patriot-News reports:

Gasoline prices are already much higher than they were a year ago, and you can expect them to keep rising.
The average price in the Harrisburg area is $3.64 per gallon, according to GasBuddy.com. Prices in the midstate have risen about 19 cents in the last month, and prices are 53 cents higher than they were a year ago.
Gasoline prices have never been this high this early in the year, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. They topped $4 per gallon in 2008, but they didn’t approach $3.60 per gallon until early May that year.