Consumers and retailers are doing what they can to get by.
prices are fast-rising, emergency inventories are depleted, and the region’s overreliance on distillate fuel has sent it careening toward a winter crisis.
The U.S. ban on Russian gas imports was a major contributing factor: Prior to the war in Ukraine, the United States was importing roughly 700,000 barrels of petroleum from Russia each day, according to government data. Of those imports, most were shipped directly as refined petroleum products, allowing the Northeast to use its own few refineries to produce gasoline instead.
Europe has also agreed to send some diesel imports as a temporary reprieve, though the impact will be limited. For Abdulmuqsad Waziri, an Afghan evacuee who assisted U.S. troops during the war, finding ways to foot high energy bills in his new home state of Massachusetts has been an especially difficult challenge. His family was resettled in the state late last year, and he’s since found steady work at a restaurant that he enjoys.
But concerns loom large for the months ahead — not just for Waziri, but for the thousands of others who say they are shelling out hundreds more per month to heat their homes than they were in previous years — threatening a very real affordability crisis for many.
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