Hurricane Ida could cause gas prices to spike at the pump

Gas prices are slated to spike astatine the pump owed to Hurricane Ida.

According to AAA, the nationalist mean connected Tuesday was $3.15, which was the aforesaid arsenic a week earlier but up by 92 cents from a twelvemonth earlier.

The New York Times reported that the tempest caused companies, including Shell, Phillips 66, and Exxon, to intermission much than 90% of their lipid accumulation and gasoline refining successful the Gulf of Mexico.

An enforcement astatine the fuel-savings app GasBuddy, Patrick De Haan, predicted state prices could summation betwixt 5 to 15 cents per gallon owed to the storm.