A tight supply and increased demand are blamed for a recent rise in Minnesota gas prices.
Triple-A’s Meredith Mitts says the statewide average is up a dime to three-dollars, 78 cents a gallon and it’s three-89 at some stations in the Twin Cities and northeastern Minnesota.
Mitts says a refinery fire in Ohio has taken 160-thousand barrels of oil daily out of the market.
OPEC also announced Wednesday that it is cutting oil production by two million barrels a day.