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Washington and Oregon get tepid gas price rise instead of expeditious increase

GasBuddy Blog -- Washington and Oregon motorists- while you're not lucky in the fact prices in the nation are among the highest in your area, you certainly are lucky that prices are ever so slow to rise instead of a quick all at once hike that we had expected.

About a week ago, we warned media and motorists that prices were going to rise quite quickly out in Oregon and Washington. We decided to make the rare step of issuing an alert for these two states. We expected that stations could raise prices over the following few days 10-35c/gal. Some stations did rise 10-15c/gal over the next few days, and nearly none hiked towards to top side of our estimations. That's the good news- it wasn't as fast as an increase as we thought.

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Submitted May 30, 2012 By: PD

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