Americans react to record gas prices: ‘You can run, but you can’t hide from inflation’

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. – Maryland residents stated they had been shocked by surging fuel costs.

“It hurts us common individuals,” one man, Josh, instructed Fox Information. “We do not have like some huge cash for s— like fuel.”

He known as the prices “unprecedented.”

The typical value for a gallon of gasoline hit a report excessive for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, leaping 8 cents to $4.252, in keeping with AAA. Biden introduced on Tuesday a ban on all Russian oil and pure fuel imports over Moscow’s struggle on Ukraine.  

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A Maryland man, Elmer, stated he was paying $3.49 a gallon final week.

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“It was simply a few days, and swiftly it is nearly as much as $5,” he instructed Fox Information. 

“You may run, however you possibly can’t disguise from inflation,” Elmer stated. “It makes it so you do not wish to drive.” 

One other man, Malcolm, stated: “If it goes as much as six or seven {dollars}, then you definitely speak extra like, is it inexpensive so that you can even go to work?”

Glenn, additionally of Maryland, instructed Fox Information: “We’re fortunate. Up in [Los Angeles], it is like $7 a gallon.” 

A person named William instructed Fox Information it is onerous for individuals dwelling paycheck to paycheck to have the ability to afford fuel at $5 a gallon.

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“Costs are extremely excessive—too excessive,” a person named Seitu stated. “Proper now, we’re in a fuel disaster.” 

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Biden, in his remarks Tuesday, acknowledged that the ban on Russian oil would price the American individuals and stated the disaster “ought to inspire us to speed up a transition to wash power.”

Millie speaks with Fox Information Digital in regards to the economic system.

A lady named Millie stated: “The economic system is form of going unhealthy. I hope that it will get higher.”

“I hope that Biden’s doing his job and is admittedly making an attempt to assist the individuals,” she continued. “Particularly throughout this pandemic, now, lots of people aren’t working and folks do not have the cash for fuel costs like that.”

Elmer instructed Fox Information: “I did not know we had been depending on [Russia] for oil. No one instructed me till this occurred. So it’s all a shock.”

Breck Dumas and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.