mid-september, 3$3.17and now up in just a month. pete muntean is with us. what is driving this spike? the price of crude oil is up. just closed at higher than $80 a barrel. the highist est it s been in th last seven years and could be as high as $85 or $90 a barrel by the end of this year. the point is from aaa, we are only just seeing the start of these high prices. what people should know, this is not a shortage. people think prices are going up. there must be a shortage. we have plenty of supply. there s plenty of oil. it s just that the price of that oil is going up. reporter: the highest prices across the country are out west. gas buddy says the metro area with the highest price is the san francisco area, $4.60 a gallon on average there. although the most common price across the country, $3.09 like this gas station here in