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Easter gas prices lower in 2014 than one year ago

Your Easter travel this year will likely be a bit cheaper than last year though far more expensive than any Christmas travel you took. George Olsen has more.

The Charlotte-based motor club AAA Carolinas says the statewide average for regular gasoline is $3.59 a gallon, down from last Easter’s average of nearly $3.65. But prices are markedly higher from Christmas time 2013, up 36 cents a gallon in that roughly four-month span. AAA says prices are typically higher around Easter as it’s just ahead of a May 1st national deadline for refineries to produce less-polluting summer-blend fuel, meaning supplies start to crimp. North Carolina prices currently are the 25th most expensive in the nation, slightly less expensive than Georgia but far behind South Carolina whose average price is the 4th lowest nationally. I’m George Olsen.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.
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