Gas prices up 8 cents in past two weeks

CAMARILLO, California (CNN) -- The average price of a gallon of self-serve, regular gasoline rose more than 8 cents during the past two weeks, to $1.43, a national survey said Sunday.

That's about half the rate of increase during the prior two weeks, when prices rose more than 14 cents, said Trilby Lundberg, publisher of the Lundberg Survey, which tallies prices at more than 7,000 gas stations every two or three weeks.

Sunday's figures were based on an April 5 survey.

"The price increase is slowing," Lundberg said. "It's a recovery from last fall's price crash."

Despite the back-to-back increases, the price of gas is still less than it was a year ago. On April 6, 2001, the average price of a gallon of self-serve regular was $1.51.

Increases in the price of crude oil were responsible for about a nickel of the 8-cent increase, she said.

Lundberg said crude oil and gas supplies appear ample headed into the spring, when demand typically rises as drivers begin to shake off the winter stay-at-home doldrums. "If the situation holds, any further gas price increases should be more moderate."

She also attributed part of the increased demand to signs of a strengthening economy.

In Atlanta, prices were cheapest in the country, at $1.27 per gallon. San Francisco led the nation, at $1.65.

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