Economy
After reaching a record high of $5.07 per gallon in early June, the average price for a gallon of gas in Pennsylvania is now down to $3.85.
The bill lowers healthcare costs, incentivizes companies to adopt renewable energies and produce clean energy products; provides consumer rebates for those products, and delivers tens of billions of dollars of direct investments to American communities—funded by taxes on billion-dollar corporations.
The PA Opportunity Program was first proposed by Wolf in February. It would send direct payments of $2,000 to around 250,000 households.
The $42.8 billion spending plan includes increases in education funding, environmental programs, and a new “whole home repairs program.”
As Democratic US Senate candidate John Fetterman slammed oil companies for price gouging to pad their profits, his opponent Mehmet Oz called the criticism of those same companies “reprehensible.”
The president signed a bill into law to stop high shipping costs from conglomerates, and there could be more to come.
The Altoona-based convenience store and gas station chain is providing relief for pain at the pump through Independence Day.