AAA Texas: Weekend Gas Watch; Gas Prices Surge Across Texas with More Increases Expected.HOUSTON Houston, city (1990 pop. 1,630,553), seat of Harris co., SE Tex., a deepwater port on the Houston Ship Channel; inc. 1837. Economy The fourth largest city in the nation and the largest in the entire South and Southwest, Houston is a port of entry; -- The price of a gallon gallon: see English units of measurement. of gasoline gasoline or petrol, light, volatile mixture of hydrocarbons for use in the internal-combustion engine and as an organic solvent, obtained primarily by fractional distillation and "cracking" of petroleum, but also obtained from natural gas, by moved sharply higher this week as uncertainties about supplies caused speculators to bid up the prices of crude oil and gasoline futures, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. AAA AAA: see American Automobile Association. (Triple A) A common single-cell battery used in a myriad of electronic devices of all variety. Like its double A (AA) cousin, it provides 1.5 volts of DC power. When used in series, the voltage is multiplied. Texas' Weekend Gas Watch. The average price of regular self-serve in Texas jumped 10.3 cents per gallon to $2.832, which is 70.9 cents higher than the price last year. Dallas Dallas, city (1990 pop. 1,006,877), seat of Dallas co., N Tex., on the Trinity River near the junction of its three forks; inc. 1871. The second largest Texas city, after Houston, and the eighth largest U.S. motorists are paying the highest prices at $2.899 a gallon - a weekly increase of 8.9 cents. The lowest average can be found in San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. at $2.764 a gallon, up 11.2 cents since last week. "Investors have been climbing a wall of worry because the nation's inventories of gasoline have declined in recent weeks. Some refineries are switching to a formula of gas that requires ethanol ethanol (ĕth`ənōl') or ethyl alcohol, CH3CH2OH, a colorless liquid with characteristic odor and taste; commonly called grain alcohol or simply alcohol. instead of MTBE MTBE Methyl-tert-butyl-ether Surgery An aliphatic ether that rapidly dissolves cholesterol stones in vivo, introduced under local anesthesia via a percutaneous transhepatic cholecystectomy catheter, as a non-invasive method for treating gallstones; after injection, and there have been spot shortages of ethanol," said Paul Gonzales Paul Garza Gonzales (born April 18, 1964 in East Los Angeles, California) was an American boxer, who won the light flyweight gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Amateur Career , spokesperson for AAA Texas. "Within 3-4 weeks, refineries completing their transition should be at full production and as many as one million additional barrels of gasoline per day will enter the nation's supply stream and prices should decline." The national average for regular self-serve gasoline is $2.825 a gallon - 10.8 cents higher than a week ago. AAA Texas' Weekend Gas Watch monitors the average price of gasoline in Texas.
Average Daily Prices as of 12:01 AM, April 21, 2006
Area Weekly Weekly
4/21/06 Change 4/13/06 Change 4/6/06
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National $2.825 +10.8 cents $2.717 +12.0 cents $2.597
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State $2.832 +10.3 cents $2.729 +14.3 cents $2.586
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Austin-San
Marcos $2.792 +10.9 cents $2.683 +15.4 cents $2.529
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Beaumont $2.803 +8.8 cents $2.715 +14.6 cents $2.569
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Corpus Christi $2.786 +13.6 cents $2.650 +16.3 cents $2.487
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Dallas $2.899 +8.9 cents $2.810 +14.4 cents $2.666
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Ft. Worth $2.896 +9.2 cents $2.804 +13.6 cents $2.668
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Galveston-Texas
City $2.873 +10.2 cents $2.771 +15.8 cents $2.613
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Houston $2.862 +10.6 cents $2.756 +13.9 cents $2.617
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San Antonio $2.764 +11.2 cents $2.652 +16.4 cents $2.488
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Area 2005
Record High Average
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National $3.057 (9/5/05) $2.223
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State $2.964 (9/4/05) $2.134
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Austin-San
Marcos $2.918 (9/6/05) $2.125
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Beaumont $2.930 (9/4/05) $2.094
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Corpus Christi $2.929 (9/3/05) $2.094
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Dallas $3.019 (9/4/05) $2.156
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Ft. Worth $3.012 (9/4/05) $2.145
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Galveston-Texas
City $2.997 (9/4/05) $2.117
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Houston $2.971 (9/6/05) $2.114
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San Antonio $2.909 (9/4/05) $2.098
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