U.S. gasoline prices have surged by 20 cents in just a week, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine sent international crude oil prices soaring above $110 per barrel. The national average now stands at $3.781/gal, “up an amazing 20c/gal from a week ago,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for fuel-savings app GasBuddy, said on Friday. The daily rise was among the ten biggest daily increases ever and the highest recorded outside August and September at 6.5c/gal, De Haan added . On Thursday, for the first time ever, a U.S. city breached the $5/gal per gallon average—this is San Francisco, De Haan tweeted yesterday. Earlier this week, De Haan predicted that the national average could potentially jump to $3.90/gal by St. Patrick’s Day, and possibly to a record-breaking $4.10 by April 1. Per AAA data , the national average of regular gasoline was $3.837/gal early on Friday. Last […]