Companies raise prices and turn down jobs, as surging fuel costs compound inflationary pressures; a $110,000 gas bill| Photographs by Michelle Gustafson for The Wall Street JournalRising fuel prices are taking a toll on small businesses, prompting owners of everything from furniture retailers to swimming-pool service companies to trim services and revise contracts as they try to soften the financial hit.
Keon Enterprises, in Harrisburg, Pa., has paid as much as $3,180 for gas in recent weeks, up from about $1,500 in mid-December. “It’s keeping me awake,” said Omara Riechi, chief executive officer of the company, which operates under the name Keon Transport and operates 32 vehicles that provide door-to-door transportation to people with disabilities. “I keep checking gas prices.”
Time for speedy launch of electric vehicle at affordable price..or old form of horse riding.
The impact is grossly exaggerated just like your pitiful essay.
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Perhaps your paper shouldn’t have been trying to keep us oil dependent for the last 40 years?