Author: Khalida Volou (WUSA9), Associated Press
WASHINGTON — With gas prices continuing to soar, finding the pumps with the best deals is more important than ever. You can now track the latest and lowest gas prices in the D.C., Maryland and Virginia region on the WUSA9 website with a tool from Gas Buddy.
As of Tuesday, the national average for a gallon of gas climbed to $4.17. The price of benchmark U.S. crude jumped 8% to more than $129 per barrel. Currently, the lowest pump price in D.C. is $3.85 at a BP station on Benning Road NE.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the country has seen a significant increase of over 50 cents a gallon. Although the U.S. only imports about a fraction of oil from Russia, experts said the cost of oil is being impacted by the nervousness around a potential supply disruption.
“It doesn’t really matter, necessarily how much oil any country is producing itself and consuming internally, because the price of oil is really set on a global basis,” said Sasha Mackler, Bipartisan Policy Center.
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