The price of a gallon of gasoline shot up in the past week, hitting an average of $3.98 in San Jose, $4 in Oakland and $4.18 in San Francisco, according to a survey from GasBuddy. The per-gallon amounts reflect respective average increases of 26.4 cents, 25 cents and 29.2 cents.
Gasoline prices haven’t been this high in the region since April, when California was dealing with outages at some refineries on the West Coast as well as the yearly shift to more expensive summer-blended gasoline. Before…
