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<p>Barring a steep drop in crude prices, U.S. motorists can expect to see gas prices exceeding $3 per gallon, if they are not seeing such prices already, according to a new survey of filling stations.</p> <p>The latest Lundberg Survey of cities in the continental United States was conducted Friday. It showed the national average price for a gallon of self-serve unleaded gasoline at $2.91, an increase of 3.9 cents from the last survey two weeks earlier, survey publisher Trilby Lundberg said.</p>

U.S. Resists Building Refineries As Overseas Firms Move Ahead By THADDEUS HERRICK in Houston, BHUSHAN BAHREE in New York and KEITH JOHNSON in Madrid Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL December 28, 2005 A surge in investment in new refineries is under way overseas even as U.S. refiners remain leery of adding facilities -- a development that could make the U.S. more reliant on imports of refined products like gasoline and heating oil in coming years. About 100 projects representing as much as 12 million barrels a day of added refining capacity, most of them outside the U.S., could...