According to AAA, gas prices have risen almost a dollar in the past year.
Currently, the average price for gas in the state is $3.13 a gallon, up two cents in the last week and almost an entire dollar in the last year.
This time last year the average price per gallon was $2.23 a gallon.
In Syracuse today the gas is $3.12 a gallon and last Monday was six cents less.
Rising crude oil prices might be higher gas prices this month, according to AAA.
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