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COVID's mask and vaccine mandates may be on the wane but they've been replaced with a new menace: rising prices at the pump that are making it harder and harder to make ends meet.
"This is ridiculous," said a frustrated Will Miller of Milton as he filled up his car with gasoline at the Milton Road Cumberland Farms on Sunday.
Miller said he had no clue what was causing the sudden spike, but said, "it ain's helping no on."
"Last week it was $3.39, now it's almost four buck," he fumed.
Bill Adams of Lebanon, Maine, who owns a tree service business, said everything he uses, from two-cycle oil to gasoline, has spiked thanks to the war in Ukraine. He places the blame of price hikes solely on the back of President Biden.
"The price has doubled since Trump was in office," he said. "It now costs me $110 to fill up my truck. The costs for everything has gone crazy."
Adams, who was interviewed while filling his truck at the Milton Road Shell, said Biden's decision to kill the Keystone Pipeline and freeze new energy projects in the United States has directly enabled Russian President Vladmir Putin to fund his aggression on Ukraine.
Putin, who is reportedly worth as much as $200 billion according to a recent Fortune article, "will be making double what he did last year thanks to the price of gas and oil," Adams said.
He said the costs of gasoline, oil and inflation has forced him to raise his prices by 20 percent, but added he is absorbing much of the financial pain, himself.
Meanwhile, Gina Countryman, of Rochester said she's lucky because she doesn't drive that much except for business, which compensates her for her travel. She said recently the compensation was raised due to gasoline prices skyrocketing.
"I have a hard time with politics, so I don't have much to say about why this is happening," she said. "But I think it's going to continue to go up through the summer."
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