Gas Stations Still Dark as Texas Emerges From Freeze
- More than 1,700 stations are without electricity on Friday
- Texas pump prices at $2.27 a gallon, U.S. price at 2019-high
Gas pumps are out of service at an Exxon gas station in Houston on Feb. 18.
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More than 1,700 gas stations are without electricity on Friday because of the Texas power disaster, threatening to push pump prices even higher with key refineries in the state still shut.
The total represents more than 13% of the stations in Texas, Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis for retail fuel tracker GasBuddy, said in a tweet Friday afternoon. Among the largest cities, the most outages are concentrated in the San Antonio area.