Gas prices are impacting more than just drivers. Erie News Now is looking at how the rising cost of fuel is affecting local boaters, renters, and businesses here in Erie.<\/p>\n
The price of gas is something local boaters are keeping a close eye on this season.<\/p>\n
At Port Erie, regular unleaded gasoline has climbed from about $4.32 a gallon to around $5 \u2014 adding to the cost of getting out on the water.<\/p>\n
And compared to last year, the increase is even more noticeable.<\/p>\n
Average gas prices were around $3.09 a gallon in 2025. Today, they\u2019re closer to $5.<\/p>\n
That means boaters are paying more to fill up \u2014 and that higher cost is also being felt by local businesses that rely on the summer boating season.<\/p>\n
But fuel costs aren\u2019t the only challenge facing Port Erie this season.<\/p>\n
We spoke with owner Rob Orelski, who told us about another issue impacting the business.<\/p>\n
For renters, the cost of gas is passed directly on to them.<\/p>\n
And while the other rental costs have stayed the same, fuel is the one expense that has gone up this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gas prices are impacting more than just drivers. Erie News Now is looking at how the rising cost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[115911,89183,136,138,137,47785,8098,12508,115910,80526],"class_list":["post-276388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-boat-rentals","tag-boaters","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fuel-costs","tag-gas-prices","tag-local-businesses","tag-port-erie","tag-summer-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276388","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=276388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}