하늘높이 치솟는 기름값
하늘높이 치솟는 기름값
From ABC News headquarters, this is World News with Charles Gibson. Good evening. Last summer, it was what everybody was talking about. Gas prices. And the talk is starting again. Again, you can see the prices going up almost daily. Today, the government said the price of an average gallon of regular went up five cents just in the last week to $2.56 a gallon. That’s up $.39 a gallon since late January. And summer, when demand typically 전형적으로, 대체로 peaks, is still a long ways off. ABC’s Dean Reynolds joins me now from
Good evening, Charlie. Well, one analyst we talked to today said Americans are just getting used to ~에 익숙한 higher gasoline prices and that despite them, demand this summer is expected to be astronomical 천문학적인, 방대한. The lowest price for a gallon of regular gasoline in this country? $2.22 in
The current price spike 급격한 상승 is felt in every region of the country, but especially on the west coast where it’s up $.44 from a year ago. Indeed just 6 weeks ago, the national average was $2.16 a gallon. In Atlanta, the current pump price of $2.44 is food for thought 생각할 거리.
It’s not entirely unexpected. A graph of the last 2 years shows price peaks in concert with ~와 일치하여 the annual switch from winter grade to summer grade fuel. A change that is taking place 일어나다 earlier than usual this year. That and unforeseen 뜻하지 않은 problems at refineries 정제<정련>소 and pipelines together with record demand for gasoline in January and February have combined to push prices higher. And higher.
In Chicago where the pump prices <주유소의> 기름값 now north of $2.50 a gallon, adjustment 조정, 조절 are underway 진행중인. “I have to do it no matter what. So other things suffer. But the car doesn’t.”