Gas Prices on the Rise Again in San Diego County

KPBS | By KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published November 13, 2006 at 10:04 AM PST

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

After dropping for more than a dozen consecutive weeks, gas prices in San Diego County are rising again. What prompts this increase? How high will they go? Are the oil companies manipulating the ma

Tom Fudge : When it comes to gas prices, the story of the latter part of this year is one of falling prices. After reaching a high of nearly $3.50 in the spring, gas prices have fallen about a dollar a gallon. But last week something interesting happened. Gas prices started to go up again. This has provided plenty of fodder for suspicious consumers, who believe the earlier drop in gas prices was due to the election. The oil industry, they say, didn’t want Americans to go to the polls angry about high gas prices. This could be especially true in California, where the oil industry fought hard to defeat Proposition 87, the oil extraction tax.

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Michael Shames , executive director of UCAN, the Utility Consumers’ Action Network.