ENERGY

Pump Price Jump Averages 7 Cents a Gallon: The rise was due mainly to a dramatic $6-per-barrel rise in international crude oil prices in the last two months, Trilby Lundberg, publisher of the Lundberg Survey, said. The average price of gasoline, including all grades and taxes, was 131.39 cents a gallon, according to the Lundberg Survey of 10,000 gasoline stations nationwide. That compares with the average 124.39 cents for March 22. The greatest increase at the pump was in the West, where prices jumped an average of 9 cents a gallon. For the Midwest it was between 5 and 6 cents a gallon, Lundberg said. Diesel fuel was up 8 cents a gallon nationally for an average 134.79 cents per gallon at self-serve pumps, where most diesel is sold, Lundberg said.