U.S. national average gasoline prices spiked over 16 cents last week, hitting $3.72 per gallon, according to data from GasBuddy, while AAA put the average price per gallon on Monday at $3.757. At the same time, the past week has seen diesel prices increase 15.5 cents to $3.99 per gallon, with AAA reporting a price of $4.036 on Monday. GasBuddy data is compiled from more than 11 million individual price reports from over 150,000 gas stations nationwide. “Gas prices suddenly soared over the last week due to heat-related refinery…
