Those stubbornly high gas motivate prices effect look as if like an undesired quarters customer who overstays his welcome, hit January.

Drivers in divers states already fee at least $3 a gallon on regular and analysts don't look for any recess soon. That's because blunt lubricator has hovered between $83 and $89 a barrel since Thanksgiving.

The national middling because of regular gasoline was $2.981 a gallon Monday, according to a assess alongside AAA, Wright Put forth and the Oil Reward Low-down Service. That's about the unchanged as a week ago and more than a dime higher than a month ago. A year ago the customary was $2.59 a gallon.

Motorists in Washington, California, Hawaii, Illinois pierścionki and Maine are among those paying the highest prices -- from $3.092 a gallon to $3.618 a gallon. The Rockies, Texas and parts of the Midwest have the cheapest gas, ranging from $2.738 a gallon to $2.827 a gallon.