$70 crude is one more holiday hassle

Despite falling pump prices, refinery outlook and oil futures could lift gasoline prices before season ends

Hot dogs, hamburgers, $3 gas and now crude at $70 a barrel


…Crude prices are rising on concerns that U.S. refineries, racked with outages this year, are not keeping pace with the nation’s gasoline habit. The point was brought home Wednesday in an Energy Department report showing lower-than-expected gasoline supplies even as more refineries came back online