The price of gas keeps going up. How high it will go, nobody knows. But one thing is for sure—it had been going up in price for the last several months, and now, the United States won’t be purchasing barrels of oil for it from Russia.
On March 8, hours before President Joe Biden placed a ban on Russian oil imports because of its continued unprovoked attack on Ukraine, people were pulling up to the pumps in southwest Ohio to put in all they could in the tank before it goes up again and again. For most of them, it was the first time they had paid $4 a gallon for gas.