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WASHINGTON, April 30 (UPI) -- U.S. lubricator companies are producing inferior gas with refineries operative at about 81 proportionality of power and exporting more of their production, experts say.

That is contributing to higher prices at the pump, the Los Angeles Times reportable Thursday, though higher vulgar prices are ease the field factor.

In the time 20 years, the federal Energy Department has reportable refineries hit averaged 89 proportionality of power in New spring.

Exxon Mobil Corp. reportable this hebdomad that profits were $11 1000000000 in the prototypal quarter, up 69 proportionality from last year, on income of $114 billion. BP, with costs up because of last year's large Gulf of Mexico spill, reportable profits of $7.1 billion.

Gas averaged $3.88 per gallon this hebdomad across the country.

"This is a page torn correct discover of the reference of gouge-onomics," physicist Langley, grownup gasoline shrink at the Utility Consumers' Action Network in San Diego, told the Times. "We call it the accumulation of supply and demand: They supply inferior product and obligation more money for it."