CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -If you are planning to fill up with gas for the holiday weekend in Ohio, you’ll likely see prices that shot up nearly a dollar in the past week.

According to GasBuddy analysts, there are a couple of reasons for that, and the biggest one is a refinery in Indiana that is unexpectedly down.

There second reason is something called price cycling.

There are times gas stations sell gas at a low price and taking a small loss at the pumps, but still making money on items sold inside the convenience store.

Then when they have to pay higher prices on their next shipment of gas, they have to quickly raise prices to avoid major losses.

While the national average for a gallon of gas is 14 cents lower than it was a year ago, in Ohio prices are actually 14 cents higher than

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