Average price for a gallon of gas in Tacoma highest its ever been, AAA reports
The price of gas has been soaring at gas pumps across the U.S. in the last week, and Tacoma is no exception. Unleaded gas was an average of $4.53 per gallon in the city Monday, a cringe-inducing record that beat out the previous high from June 2008.
Just a week ago, the average in Tacoma was $4.05 per gallon. A month ago it was $3.99 per gallon. Those figures are according to AAA, which points to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the cause of the skyrocketing prices. In the first full week of the invasion, the national average rose by nearly 41 cents, topping $4.
The previous record in Tacoma for unleaded gas was $4.367 per gallon in June 2008.
“Forget the $4 per gallon mark, the nation will soon set new all-time record highs and we could push closer to a national average of $4.50/gal.,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.
On Sunday, the cheapest station in Tacoma was pricing gas at $3.94 per gallon, and the most expensive station was $5.11 per gallon, according to GasBuddy. The fuel-price data company surveys 271 stations in Tacoma.
Washington state’s average price for unleaded gas was also at a record-high Monday of $4.449 per gallon, according to AAA. In Seattle, the average was $4.63 per gallon, and in Olympia, it was $4.468 per gallon.
“We’ve never been in this situation before, with this level of uncertainty,” De haan said in a news release. “As we lose a major global producer under the weight of deserving bipartisan sanctions for invading a sovereign country, the cost is high. Americans will be feeling the pain of the rise in prices for quite some time, with little good news foreseen.”
This story was originally published March 7, 2022 at 10:10 AM.
