While Natural Gas Prices Fall, Gasoline Rises

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.

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