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Happy New Year to the entire GasBuddy community!

GasBuddy Blog -- It’s hard to believe another year has come and gone.
2012 was a year that showed us unbelievable gas price spikes that result when oil refineries are compromised. We began the year with a BP refinery fire in Cherry Point, WA and massive spikes on the west coast.

The spring delivered challenges for Great Lakes refineries and pushed Chicago gas prices to a new high. Similarly, the California summer saw major refinery outages and new record high prices.

Hurricane Sandy delivered a punishing blow to the East Coast causing refinery shutdowns, flooding and power outages. The resulting fuel shortage triggered mile-long lines and in New York gasoline was the highest in the U.S. When GasBuddy was called in by NYC officials...

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Submitted Jan 01, 2013 By: DC

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