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A new milestone with no signs of slowing down.

The national average price for a gallon of regular top $5 for the first time over the weekend.

The average price of gas climbing to $5 and one cent overnight.

And a lot of places are seeing the prices even higher according to AAA.

I didn't quite anticipate that large of a jump that fast, but here it is.

It's here.

Dennis Briggs owns D Briggs transportation in Pittsburgh.

Gas averaging five bucks a gallon, even higher in some places, means to fill up his fleet

of about 40 vehicles, bands, a party bus, a limo and a few others.

And the passive was $12,000.

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