Gas station
People fill up their tanks with gasoline at a Costco Gas Station in Carlsbad, California.
  • US gas prices hit an eight-month high on Friday.
  • Average retail gasoline spiked 12 cents in three days, hitting $3.732 per gallon.
  • An outage at a key Gulf Coast refinery is threatening already-low supply.

As if Americans needed another reason to work from home, US gas prices spiked Friday to their highest mark since November, according to AAA data.

The average retail price for a gallon of gas just hit $3.732, up from $3.587 a week ago and $3.556 a month ago. It's the second-highest mark for this time of year in the last decade, according to Bloomberg.