Price of fuel at the pump goes up

You may not have noticed unless you asked, but the price of fuel quietly changed at the pumps on Monday. And the bad news is that it went up and significantly. Regular gas stood at seven dollars and ninety-eight cents per gallon but it has now gone up by a whopping seventy-eight cents to eight dollars and seventy-six cents. Diesel, which was at seven dollars and nineteen cents, shot up by thirty-seven cents and is selling at seven dollars and fifty-six cents. Kerosene also went up from five dollars and seventy-eight cents to five dollars and ninety-nine cents. Premium remained the same at eight dollars and forty-six cents.