Gasoline price spike bears down on Massachusetts
We probably don’t need to tell you: Gasoline prices are way up in Massachusetts, as in the rest of the country, as war between the US and Iran continues to disrupt critical global energy supplies.
How bad? Try a 50-cent increase in a month. Average regular gas prices in Massachusetts are now $3.97 per gallon, up sharply from $3.47 a month earlier – and $2.96 a year ago, according to AAA.
Kyle Murray, director of state program implementation in Massachusetts for the environmental nonprofit Acadia Center, said that the seemingly sudden collective lightbulb going off about the case for renewables to insulate us from fossil fuel volatility is like deja vu (with the caveat, he added, that this particular snag with the Strait of Hormuz could also choke off key shipping routes important for clean energy sources, too).
“I urge the governor to keep making that case that this is the affordability path forward: by pursuing renewables and energy efficiency,” Murray said.
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