Americans Brace for Higher Prices at the Pump

Despite President Trump’s promise he’d bring down energy prices, Americans should brace for higher gasoline prices amid seasonal maintenance at refineries and outages on the West Coast. Yet even higher, prices are down compared to a year ago. “The national average has inched higher, driven primarily by sharp gas price increases on the West Coast, where refinery maintenance and outages have created a ripple effect in neighboring states, pushing prices higher in many communities,” GasBuddy’s head of petroleum analysis,…