The higher fuel costs have added about $15 a week to his driving expenses, nearly equal to an hour’s take-home pay from food delivery. It makes for the second-largest one-month gas price increase in three decades, behind only the supply shock created by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. “Maybe something will happen with the war and prices will plummet back down and this will prove to be a temporary thing. Gas prices are displayed at a Chevron gas station as a customer fuels up in Bellevue, Washington on March 13. The added fuel costs came as an unpleasant surprise.

Source: Huffington Post March 19, 2026 16:12 UTC