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Gas prices hit 7-month high

AAA Carolinas is reporting a big spike in gas prices for North Carolina motorists over the past month. George Olsen has more.

The Charlotte-based motor club says gas prices rose 15 cents over the last month, from an average of $3.38 on March 8 to $3.53 on Tuesday. That’s the highest average price in the state since July 27, 2013 when the price was $3.54. The current price is also 22 cents higher than at the start of the year when prices averaged $3.31, though well below last year’s peak of $3.80. AAA Carolinas president and CEO David E. Parsons says the recent rise in prices can be attributed to refinery maintenance that typically occurs in the spring which tightens supplies. Prices are expected to continue upward until that maintenance is complete by the end of the month. 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.