Gas Prices Continue Push Toward $4 a Gallon
The average cost for regular unleaded is at a record level for this point in the year, according to the latest AAA survey.
Gas stations along Back River Neck Road, including this Exxon, have some of the cheapest fuel prices in town.
Alison Ketelsen
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The price to fill up at the pump continues to get more expensive with each passing week.
According to the latest AAA survey, the national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded jumped to $3.56 a gallon on Sunday, up 5 cents from a week ago and 40 cents from the same week a year ago.
In Maryland, the average price for a gallon of unleaded fuel jumped to $3.61, up 3 cents in a week and 51 cents from the same time in 2011, the survey continued.
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The prices represent a record price for this time of the year, according to a AAA news release. AAA reports the average price for regular unleaded didn’t reach $3.50 a gallon in 2011 until March 8.
Impending sanctions against Iran and rising global demand have helped gas prices to inch closer to the record $4.11 a gallon U.S. average set in July 2008, despite U.S. demand being at its lowest level since January 2000, the release states.
Here are some of the cheapest gas prices in the Essex-Middle River area, according to Patch’s gas tracker page and MarylandGasPrices.com:
| Gas Station | Address | Price of Unleaded |
| Carroll Fuel | 35 Back River Neck Road | $3.49 |
| Carroll Fuel | 101 Back River Neck Road | $3.50 |
| Xtra Mart | 724 Eastern Blvd. | $3.53 |
| Gulf | 9526 Pulaski Highway | $3.53 |
| Exxon | 100 Back River Neck Road | $3.55 |
How does rising gas prices impact your feeling about the proposed gas tax in Maryland? Tell us in the comments section below.
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Crystal Car Wash
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Exxon
100 Back River Neck Rd, Essex, MD
Red Dolphin
11:37 pm on Monday, February 20, 2012
this is all Bush's fault right ? the entire woes of this administration is all Bush's fault/ right now we have a handful of americans being held hostage. are you hearing any thing about it ? (what is 16 people ? in the middle east , is it Iran ? plese calrify for me thank you) in any event are we planing on freeing them? or just let them get tortured over there ? I understand Senator Mc cain is over there a s a diplomat. bless his soul( he knowa all too well what oitrslike to be a prisoner of war in a communist country) but the question is what is the white house doing ? Id send a note " you have 24 hours to let them go or we're coming to your shores or borders and you dont want that "
Red Dolphin
11:39 pm on Monday, February 20, 2012
allow the pipe line to traverse from Canada and the prices wiil plummet
Scott Sewell
8:10 am on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
So let me make sure I have this right; Wheb Bush was in office, the dems said that the reason gas prices were high, was because Bush & Chaney were oil men. So now that we've had 3 years of Obama, the reason is????????
How's that hope & change working out for ya'll?
Red Dolphin
9:09 pm on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
you know I was being sarcastic right ? this is Obama's economy now, if you thin about it his father was not an american. right ? so he doesnt think like we do, he thinks we are a bunch of over -paid who need to make restitution, if he realy cared about us he wouldnt make all these edicts agains the willof the poeple (with out working things out with the rest of washington) he just declares an edcit,you saw what he tried to make the cathiloc hospitals do for free yet ! he got a list oof radcail Czars (Van jones had to resign due to his anit -white speech,,, he sure can pick 'em huh?
Tom Cunningham
9:37 am on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
This morning - CITGO at Frederick & Hilton.....Premium $3.98
Gil Barker
12:31 pm on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
How do we muster a group to boycott gas stations by only buying all of our gas at one location on a monthly basis ... then the next month we will buy from a different station -- really a certain brand of gas ... we could start this action beginning March 1st ... who wants to join in ...
Jesse moore
3:20 pm on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Instead o feeding all the people that dont work for free. Lets focus on gas and let them starve!! Thanks osama bama
Red Dolphin
9:12 pm on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
becareful Jesse you wilget a stigma attached to you you dont want that do you ? you;d better watch it you cant criticise the messiah , and you know Misses Obama knows whats best for you kids right ?