Massachusetts
Massachusetts gas station owner stops selling gas in protest of record high prices
FOX Enterprise’ Jeff Flock experiences on record-high fuel costs.
As fuel costs across the nation hit document highs, one fuel station proprietor in Massachusetts has drained his tanks in protest.
“It’s laborious sufficient for individuals to place groceries on their desk after working within the manufacturing unit or wherever they work for 30-40 hours every week and never have the ability to put fuel of their automobile and get to work. I don’t need to be a part of that,” Reynold Gladu, who owns a Mobil fuel station in central Massachusetts, informed Western Mass Information this week.
Folks fueling their automobiles at a busy fuel station. (Zeng Hui/Xinhua through Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
Fuel costs in Massachusetts hit a document excessive of $5.028 a gallon on Thursday, in response to the auto membership AAA.
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The value of oil has skyrocketed around the globe following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent embargoes on Russian vitality.
Some lawmakers have blamed the Biden administration for briefly suspending new oil leases on federal lands, blocking the Keystone XL pipeline, and failing to subject essential permits to carry further manufacturing on-line from present offshore federal oil and fuel leases.
Fuel costs are hitting information highs across the nation. (AP Photograph/Lynne Sladky, File / AP Newsroom)
Gladu, in the meantime, blamed oil and fuel firms for pumping up the costs.
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“There’s no justifying that it’s the identical fuel that was within the floor that they’re simply making extra cash on,” Gladu informed Western Mass Information.
“I’ll proceed to function this that belongs to me, not Mobil, however myself as a person and if individuals need to have their vehicles serviced I will likely be glad to do it.”
ExxonMobil didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.