AAA Texas: Weekend Gas Watch; The Price of Crude Pushes Gas Prices Higher.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; -- Retail 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 prices skyrocketed this week as crude oil prices jumped to record levels, 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 Texas average price for regular self-serve increased four cents to $2.101 a gallon gallon: see English units of measurement. -- seven cents shy of the all-time all-time adj. Exceeding all others up to the present time: an all-time speed skating record. all-time Adjective Informal record high of $2.175 a gallon. Motorists in Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, in Christianity Corpus Christi [Lat.,=body of Christ], feast of the Western Church, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday (or on the following Sunday). are paying the cheapest at $2.046 a gallon -- nearly a seven cents increase in only a week. Dallas has the highest average at $2.126 a gallon -- four cents higher. "The price of crude tipped the scale above $59 a barrel this week, setting a new record high," said Rose Rougeau, spokesperson for AAA Texas. "The sustained upward direction in crude oil prices is of course driving gasoline prices higher. If the price of crude pushes beyond $60 a barrel and stays there, a fresh run at new record high gas prices will occur." The national average for regular self-serve gasoline is $2.180 a gallon -- up four cents in one week. AAA Texas' Weekend Gas Watch monitors the average price of gasoline at popular destinations for automobile trips.
Average Daily Prices as of 12:01 A.M., June 24, 2005:
Last
Week's Weekly 2004
Area Current Average Change New Record Price Average
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National $2.180 $2.136 +4.4 cents $2.276 (4/11/05) $1.930
State $2.101 $2.060 +4.1 cents $2.175 (4/11/05) $1.822
Austin-San
Marcos $2.081 $2.040 +4.1 cents $2.159 (4/11/05) $1.811
Beaumont $2.067 $2.020 +4.7 cents $2.140 (4/09/05) $1.823
Corpus Christi $2.046 $1.978 +6.8 cents $2.173 (4/09/05) $1.728
Dallas $2.126 $2.083 +4.3 cents $2.180 (4/09/05) $1.857
Ft. Worth $2.111 $2.072 +2.4 cents $2.176 (4/11/05) $1.846
Galveston-Texas
City $2.071 $2.047 +2.4 cents $2.159 (4/11/05) $1.811
Houston $2.072 $2.041 +3.1 cents $2.154 (4/09/05) $1.808
San Antonio $2.055 $2.003 +5.2 cents $2.151 (4/11/05) $1.780
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