The average gas price for the week ending May 20 reached $4.59 a gallon, after eleven days of record-high consecutive price increases.
Global energy prices are continuing to worsen as the European Union pledged further oil sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
Record-high inflation and high fuel costs are beginning to cause a slowdown in the U.S. economy, with the consumer price index rising 8.3 percent in April from a year prior, just below March’s 40-year high….
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