Since the conflict in Iran began, gas prices have surged nationally by an average of a dollar. Folks in Lackawanna County are feeling the pinch at the pumps.<\/p>\n
LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 $3.908. That’s what GasBuddy reports is the average price of a gallon of gas in Pennsylvania. But here in Lackawanna County, multiple gas stations have even higher prices, at least one gas station with prices above $4.<\/p>\n
“You know everything is just so ridiculously high, people can’t afford to live, it’s really bad,\u201d said Kevin Losavich of Scranton.<\/p>\n
“I don’t like it, but hopefully they will come down at some point,\u201d said Paul Wassel from Taylor.<\/p>\n
Some people said they’re not as impacted by the higher gas prices.<\/p>\n
“They’re high for a lot of people, I feel sorry for a lot of people. Fortunately, it’s not impacting me at this point,\u201d said Anne Bazil of Scranton.<\/p>\n
Since the start of the conflict in Iran, national gas prices have increased by an average of a dollar.<\/p>\n
“The $3.99 a gallon, this is insane,\u201d said Jason Gnall from Taylor. \u201cThe gas has gone up so much in the last couple of weeks, days, etc. I mean, it’s hard to imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to GasBuddy, the surge of prices since the Iran conflict is the largest three-week jump ever, leaving some folks wanting answers as to why the conflict is even happening.<\/p>\n
“I think the American people should be kind of given a better explanation for what and the reason why because clearly it’s causing a catastrophe in the Middle East, it’s causing a catastrophe here at home, and it’s not fair, it’s not fair to the American people,\u201d said Gnall.<\/p>\n
Although prices are the highest some folks have seen, they say they have faith in the U.S. government and believe gas prices will come down.<\/p>\n
“This is the highest it\u2019s been in the last several months, but I really believe President Trump will bring them down,\u201d said Bazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the conflict in Iran began, gas prices have surged nationally by an average of a dollar. Folks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-144302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}