With competing factors tugging on the price of oil, and subsequently retail gas prices, analysts were mixed on a direction for U.S. consumers. Motor club AAA reports a national average retail price of $2.86 for a gallon of regular unleaded for Tuesday, relatively unchanged over the past month. Jeanette Casselano, a spokeswoman for AAA, said there’s been strong demand for gasoline competing against a decline in supplies that could point to higher prices in the near future. “We are likely going to see an end of summer pump price rally as inventories continue to tighten, especially on the East Coast,” she said in a statement . But Patrick DeHaan, the senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy, said in a separate statement that, on […]