New York is up to $4.51 per gallon, a 17 cent increase from last week.
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New Jersey is at $4.47 per gallon, up 25 cents.
The national average is lower at $4.31 a gallon.
There is better news if you're in Connecticut, which is 1 cent below the national average.
The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline jumped 15 cents over past two weeks to $4.38 per gallon.
Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the current price sits just a nickel below the highest average price in history - $4.43, set on March 11.
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The average price at the pump is $1.36 higher than it was one year ago.
Analysts say crude prices are unlikely to fall as long as the supply remains tight.
Tracy Noble, a spokesperson for AAA Mid-Atlantic, says it now costs drivers in the United States an average of about $23 more to fill up than it did a year ago.
Nationwide, the highest average price for regular-grade gas is in the San Francisco Bay Area, at $5.85 per gallon. The lowest average is in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at $3.80 per gallon.
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According to the survey, the average price of diesel soared 43 cents over two weeks, to $5.58 a gallon.
(Some information from the Associated Press)
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