Gas Prices: Which Cars Face a $100 Fill-Up?

Despite occasional glimmers of relief, gas prices keep rising. At the AAA national average of $3.80 a gallon this week, the price is a dollar higher than at this time last year. You hear numbers changing daily about demand, inventory and crude oil prices. But the numbers that really matter to you are those spinning on the gas pump each time you fill the tank. What if they hit $100?

Talk about gas pains: Try seeing a triple-digit bill at the pump. And the owners of some big SUVs, like the Ford Expedition and the largest Cadillac Escalade, already know how it feels.

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We thought it would be entertaining - in a horror show kind of way - to look at a selection of vehicles that already topping the $100 mark for a fill-up. Then we checked out some more entries that could hit the triple-digit mark if gas prices kept rising.

Here’s a list of vehicles already hitting $100 a tank

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The federal Energy Information Administration is predicting that gas will average $3.86 a gallon nationally through the summer months of heavy driving. (Pump prices already top $4.00 in California, Illinois and a few other states, and are near $4.50 in Hawaii). But as we have seen recently, new troubles in the Middle East or another unforeseen event could drive gas prices even higher.