Gas Prices continue to rise before Labor Day

Eugene- $4.61/g, up 2.4 cents per gallon from last week's $4.59/g.
Salem- $4.59/g, up 1.3 cents per gallon from last week's $4.58/g.
Portland- $4.77/g, unchanged  from last week's $4.77/g.

"Gasoline, while not at all-time records, is at its highest level ever recorded this late in the calendar year, meaning Americans could for the first time ever see a national average price of gasoline above $4 per gallon on Labor Day — eclipsing the previous record of $3.83 per gallon set in 2012. While some oil shipments are apparently getting through the Strait of Hormuz, the dominant force propping up both gasoline and diesel prices is increasingly the growing loss of Russian refinery capacity, as continued Ukrainian attacks knock more facilities offline and constrain the global supply of refined fuels. Until that refining supply picture improves, both gasoline and diesel prices face continued upward pressure."said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.