Massachusetts gas prices exploded in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, surging 44 cents in one week to average $2.70 in the largest one-week spike since Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast in August 2005, according to AAA's latest survey.In addition to flooding southeast Texas, the hurricane knocked out Gulf Coast oil refineries and took a major gas pipeline feeding Massachusetts and the Northeast offline.Another powerful hurricane, Irma, is moving towards the U.S. [...]
↧