EIA warns of record-high retail gasoline prices

摘要

US retail regular-grade gasoline prices should average over US2/gal by springtime,the US Energy Information Administration said Feb 8,indicating new record highs could be set."Recently,gasoline prices have been rising in response to late fall and early winter rising crude oil prices,high rates of refinery utilization and some decline in surplus gasoline inventories in recent weeks,"EIA,the statistical arm of the US Energy Department,said in its Short Term Energy Outlook for February.