Gas prices climb again, topping $3.76

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The nationwide average for gasoline prices rose for the 26th straight day Sunday, topping the $3.76-a-gallon mark, according to the motorist group AAA.

The average price of regular unleaded gasoline climbed 0.7 cent in the latest 24-hour period. The price of gas is up from $3.47 a month ago and $3.69 a week ago. Last year at this time, gas was $3.49 a gallon.

The average price is 35 cents, or about 8.5%, lower than the record high of $4.114 set on July 17, 2008.

Average prices for regular gasoline top $4 a gallon in California, Alaska and Hawaii. At $4.38 a gallon, Hawaii ranks as the nation's high. Prices are within a nickel of the $4 mark in Connecticut, New York and Oregon, according to AAA.

Wyoming became the last state to reach the $3.20 mark, but still has the nation's lowest gas prices, about 3 cents a gallon lower than Colorado.
Gas prices have been rising on the back of soaring oil prices, which have surged 10% over the past month amid fears that tensions with Iran will lead to an all-out war that causes a disruption in oil supplies.

Signs of an improving economy have also boosted oil prices, as has the stock market. All three major indexes hit multi-year highs this week, and the S&P 500 (SPX) has risen by more than 8% in 2012.

But some economists worry that high gas prices could be the tipping point that brings on a new economic downturn. "I don't think for a minute consumer confidence levels can be sustained in the face of sustained high gas prices," said Bernard Baumohl, head of the Economic Outlook Group, a Princeton, N.J., research firm.

As gas prices soar, Republican presidential candidates have tried to tie President Obama's policies to the increase.

On Thursday, Mitt Romney said Obama "should be hanging his head" over his energy policies and accused the president of slowing domestic production. Romney advocated opening federal lands to drilling and easing regulations on fracking, a controversial policy that involves pumping water into rocks to harvest gas.

Also on Thursday, Obama delivered a speech in New Hampshire that stressed that domestic oil and gas production is at its highest point since 2003. But he also emphasized the need to develop new energy sources, as domestic production alone is not enough to keep up with U.S. demand.

The president called on Congress to end the $4 billion in subsidies to the oil industry so as to better incentivize companies to seek out clean-energy technologies.

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By Dan Ackerman, CNET

One of the advantages the physical version of your Sunday newspaper has over the digital edition is the inclusion of all those weekly sales fliers. The ones I look forward to are from Best Buy, Staples, and other tech-heavy stores, with all the latest sales and new products. However, beyond the color photos and bold-face prices, the actual details about the products on display can be hard to decipher. As Best Buy is the only nationwide electronics retailer around these days, it's a useful test case for deciphering how to read a Sunday sales flier. There's actually a lot of information on display, but at first glance, it may not seem so. Model numbers are hard to find, and much of the spec info is presented without context. Laptops are a particularly enigmatic, so that's a good test case to start with.

(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Grabbing last week's Best Buy sales circular, which features several pages of on-sale laptops from HP, Dell, Asus, Samsung, and Toshiba, I scanned in a few pages. Selecting one representative system, blown up for easy viewing below, I annotated some of the key points, breaking them out into a list with some background information and context. 1. 4-way processing

Wow, that sounds fancy. It really just means a dual-core processor with hyper-threading. It's the default for mainstream Intel processors, so you're not really getting anything extra. 2. Model number Many retail circulars go out of their way to hide the actual model number of the product being advertised, making it hard to comparison shop. In this example, the model number is buried here in the fine print. It says "I15rn-3882bk," which is better known as the Dell Inspiron 15R. Why the jumble of numbers and letters? Stores such as Best Buy get their own store-specific model numbers, making it even harder to compare. Looking up similar systems on Dell's Web site, you can get an Inspiron 15R for $599 that has the same specs, but lacks the promised 4G Wimax antenna, or a $699 Inspiron 15R that includes a discrete AMD graphics card. Dell doesn't offer as many configuration options as it used to, so you can't build the exact same system online.

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