Motorists were driven to stand in line for gasoline Tuesday at gas stations across Greater Cincinnati, as prices shot up 25 cents or more per gallon following that morning's terrorist attacks.

        Police directed traffic Tuesday night at a Speedway station in Newport. At 7:30 p.m., 22 cars were in line, waiting to get to eight pumps. Regular was $1.62 a gallon, but clerks there, who asked not to be named, said prices would rise today.

        “I came down tonight because we heard gas is going to be $4 a gallon by tomorrow,” said Leah Moreland, 25, of Newport. “I wanted to fill up tonight while prices were still low.”

        Videotaping the scene was Kelly Simon, 36, of Newport. “This is amazing, and I want to get it on tape. My granddaughter was born six weeks ago and I want her to see this someday, because it'll never happen again,” she said.

        Reports from around the nation put gasoline at $4 a gallon in Oklahoma and $5 in Missouri. Oklahoma's governor warned against price gouging. In some parts of Northern Kentucky, gas that had been $1.55 or so Tuesday morning was $1.80 or higher by evening.

        Experts, however, said there's been no disruption of supply. The American Petroleum Institute, an industry trade group, said refineries are running normally and “supplies are adequate to meet demand.”

        Chuck Rice, spokesman for Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC in Findlay, Ohio, said he could see from his office window a gas station with 26 cars in line.

        “We've been doing what we can the past couple hours to reassure the motoring public that the refining system, the pipelines, all the normal distribution channels are operational and running,” he said.

        That doesn't mean, however, prices won't rise. When consumers run on gas stations, it's sometimes necessary to raise prices to protect supply, he said. Though there's plenty of gasoline, it still takes 10 to 14 days to transport it from the refinery to the pump.

        Bloomberg News reported Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest publicly traded oil company, has frozen wholesale prices to try to prevent price increases at the pump.

        Mr. Rice said Marathon Ashland was considering that move as well.

        Staff writers Patrick Crowley and James Pilcher contributed to this report.

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