You've likely heard by now that President Trump recently rolled out tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China. With our close ties to Canada, what does that mean for us here in Maine?
Inflation has always and likely will always be a thing. The last couple of years, it’s grown at a rate that we are not used to, leaving a lot of us scraping the bottoms of our wallets to stay afloat.
Driving a diesel, the price paid at the pump is even more than people just getting regular unleaded, so this Mainer had a little fun at his own expense. Watch the video here.
Every winter in Maine, I get more grumpy about driving. My driving, your driving, pretty much all of us. So let's go through the reasons I despise this.
A lot of different things happened when the pandemic struck the world last year. Demand for certain things like paper towels, toilet paper and N95 facemasks skyrocketed while demand for other things like plane tickets and gasoline plummeted...
The global pandemic has sent gas prices to the lower they've been in sixteen years. It makes sense. I drove a total of 21 miles in the entire month of April. No kidding! We do expect prices to go up with vacations and summer travel but still, it's not the $4.08 we paid back in 2008.
But the sure signs of Spring are already here, construction has begun on just about every street in Portland, ice cream shops are shaking off the cobwebs of the off season and have opened, and gas prices here in Maine have started to creep back up
Gas prices continue to plummet across the country and they recently dropped below $3 per gallon for the first time in Maine in almost four years. If you're like me you keep wondering where it will end. Could we actually go below $2 per gallon? Experts say it could happen in some places.