If you waited to fill up heading out for the holidays, you will be paying a lot more per gallon. Prices at most west Michigan pumps have jumped by a dime or more after dipping as low as a few cents below $3 a gallon earlier this week.

Triple-A says the average for regular unleaded is three-dollars-21 cents today in Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland-Kalamazoo. That follows a steady decline from three-dollars-60 cents a month ago.