PHOTO GALLERY | Local businesses see rising costs as conflict impacts agriculture, transportation | Local News
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Businesses across the local region, including those in the agriculture and transportation sectors, are being affected by the war and current tenuous ceasefire between the United States-Israel coalition and Iran.
Retail gasoline averaged $2.93 per gallon, for all regular formulations, in the United States on Feb. 23, a few days before the conflict started, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That jumped to $4.12 as of April 6.
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Dave Sutor is a reporter for The Tribune-Democrat. He can be reached at (814) 532-5056. Follow him on Twitter @Dave_Sutor.
