Mitengo ya mafuta yakhala ikutsika kwambiri mwezi watha, ndipo ikuyembekezeka kutsika kwambiri - mwina pansi pa $4 pa galoni - pamene oyendetsa galimoto achepetsa ndalama zomwe amagwiritsa ntchito pompayi.
Akatswiri akuti mitengo yapakati mwina inakwera kwambiri mu June, pa $5.01 pa galoni, ndipo sizingabwererenso pamlingo umenewo pokhapokha ngati pakhala kusokonezeka kwa ntchito za mafuta ndi kuyeretsa kapena kukwera kwa mitengo ya mafuta.
"Ndikuganiza kuti Tsiku la Ogwira Ntchito lingakhale tchuthi chotsika mtengo kwambiri cha chilimwe pa pompu," adatero Patrick DeHaan wa Gas Buddy. "Tikhoza kukhala ndi ziyembekezo pa zomwe zikubwera pazachuma, koma sitikuyembekezera zomwe zikubwera ku Atlantic kapena kumadera otentha. Chaka chino nyengo yamkuntho ndi nyengo yamkuntho."