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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Salt Lake City newspaper has calculated that Hurricane Katrina resulted in $57 added gasoline costs per licensed Utah driver last year.
The total cost to Utah motorists was put at $101.8 million.
The Deseret Morning News made those calculations based on new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, which tracks how much gasoline is sold by retailers in Utah and its average cost per gallon.
For the period between when Katrina hit in August until gasoline prices in Utah returned to pre-Katrina levels in November, the News multiplied the cost differential times the volume of gasoline sold. Diesel prices were not included in reports and were not included in the calculations.
The all-time high average price in the Salt Lake City-Ogden market was $2.88 a gallon for unleaded gasoline on Sept. 8, according to surveys by the American Automobile Association. The record for the Provo-Orem market was $2.89 a gallon on Sept. 10.
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