Gas prices across the North Olympic Peninsula are running above the national average of $1.633 a gallon — the highest prices since June 2001.
Like elsewhere, Peninsula gas station owners have been passing along rising costs to customers. The increases, industry officials said, result from rising cost of crude oil because of tensions in the Middle East and a crippling strike in Venezuela, one of the world’s largest oil producers.
Prices in Port Angeles ranged from a low of $1.659 a gallon for unleaded at ARCO on Eight and Lincoln streets, and highs at Race Street 76 and Toni’s Texaco at Lincoln and Fifth streets, which posted $1.799 a gallon.
The lowest gas prices found in a Peninsula Daily News survey Sunday were those at Costco Warehouse in Carlsborg, $1.509 for unleaded and the Safeway gas station on West Washington Street in Sequim, 1.539 per gallon for unleaded. Costco gas is sold to members who pay a $45 a year annual fee. Safeway offers its card-holding members a 3-cent-a-gallon discount on top of its prices.
In the Peninsula’s more remote reaches, gas stations were holding their own against prices in Port Angeles and Sequim.
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