Key Currency Exchange Rates for Friday, 12/23/22

National Average Price for Regular Unleaded Current: $3.073; Month Ago: $3.043; Year Ago: $2.111. National Average Price for Diesel Current: $3.219; Month Ago: $3.172; Year Ago: $2.424.

Authorities say nobody has been hurt after a contractor accidentally cut an underground crude oil pipeline in Central Texas and caused about 50,000 gallons (189,265 liters) to spill. A spokesman with Magellan Midstream Partners of Tulsa, Oklahoma, says cleanup has begun at the rural site near Bastrop, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of Austin. Emergency responders ordered a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) area evacuated around the spill location, as a precaution. Nearby Farm-to-Market 20 was closed in both directions. Click Read More below for more of the story.

American Dollar to Canadian Dollar = 0.756105; American Dollar to Chinese Yuan = 0.144419; American Dollar to Euro = 1.176693; American Dollar to Japanese Yen = 0.009450; American Dollar to Mexican Peso = 0.045134.