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March 29, 2024

Nevada gas prices jump 37 cents in one month

Nevada's average gas price shot up 37 cents this month, with prices climbing by 32 cents or more in every one of the state's metro areas.

AAA said Tuesday that the average price of $3.88 per gallon is up 19 cents from the same time last March, when Nevadans were paying $3.69 per gallon.

Reno and Sparks tied for Nevada's most expensive gas with average prices hitting $4.02. Elko gas is the cheapest at $3.77, even after seeing a nearly 50-cent jump this past month. Las Vegas' average is $3.83.

Nevada's price is higher than the $3.81 national average.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, greets supporters at his election watch party after winning the Michigan primary in Novi, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herber31

The cheapest gas in the country is in Casper, Wyo., where most drivers pay $3.20 per gallon. Fuel in Hilo, Hawaii, is the highest, at $4.61 per gallon.

Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama is wrongly blaming high gasoline prices on GOP candidates' tough Iran policies.

Romney told a St. Louis crowd Tuesday that Obama has said gas prices are high because Republican presidential candidates are talking "in a very muscular way about Iran and their nuclear program."

Romney offered no details.

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Left: Dean Heller speaks at the grand opening of the Mandarin Oriental at CityCenter on Dec. 4, 2009. Right: Shelley Berkley laughs with constituents during a "Congress on the Corner" event Jan. 14, 2011, at her Las Vegas office.

Obama said in an interview Monday that the biggest driver "of these high gas prices is speculation about possible war in the Middle East" and that his administration has been trying to reduce "some of the loose talk" about war there.

He commented to WFTV, an ABC affiliate in Orlando, Fla.

Romney and other Republican candidates say Obama is not aggressive enough in trying to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Meanwhile, Republican Sen. Dean Heller and Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley are pointing fingers at each other for rising gasoline prices and trying to tie consumers' pain at the pumps to each other's votes on the Keystone pipeline.

Berkley on Tuesday criticized Heller for voting against a bill stipulating that no crude oil from the transcontinental pipeline could be exported. Berkley says Heller would rather send oil overseas than use it to lower prices at home.

Heller's campaign says Berkley's support of the pipeline project is recent and she voted against it before. His campaign also says Obama administration energy policies endorsed by Berkley are to blame for higher gas prices.

Heller and Berkley are locked in a tough race for the U.S. Senate seat in District 1.

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