Published: May 15, 2009
Orlando Blowe has taken notice of rising gas prices in the Winston-Salem area.
“It was $1.90, and then it started going up,” Blowe said as he pumped gas Wednesday at Campus Gas and Service on Polo Road, where regular unleaded was $2.23 a gallon. “I didn’t think too much at first.”
For Blowe, $1.90 was not close to the $4-a-gallon in summer 2008, and he knows that gas prices typically go up this time of year.
But, he said, once prices reach the $2 mark, people pay attention.
In the Triad yesterday, the average price of regular gas was $2.21 a gallon, according to the AAA Carolinas auto club. That is 2 cents higher than it was on Wednesday, 16 cents higher than a week ago and 21 cents higher than a month ago. A year ago, the price was $3.71.
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