Gas prices in metro Detroit are a whisker away from $4 a gallon in some cases as the average price jumped 10 cents a gallon during the weekend.
The BP station at Middlebelt and Wick roads near Metro Airport was charging $3.999.
Regular prices in the metro Detroit area range from $3.53 a gallon to $3.99. The average for the area jumped 10 cents a gallon over the weekend from $3.627 on Friday to $3.731 this morning, according to AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report. Grand Rapids, Jackson and Lansing were even higher with averages of $3.78, $3.78 and $3.79, respectively.
Aside from the war in Libya and unrest elsewhere in the Middle East, a large BP refinery near Gary, Ind., is scheduled to go down for maintenance this week, said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst with Gasbuddy.com in Brooklyn Park, Minn.
A phone call and e-mail to BP officials in Houston were not returned.
DeHaan said the refinery in northwest Indiana is one of the largest in the Midwest and could add to the upward pressure on wholesale and retail gas prices in coming days. He said he didn’t know how long the maintenance work would go on...
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