How a massive refinery shortage is contributing to high gas prices
Refining capacity in the U.S. is about one million barrels a day below what it was prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Every bit helps, and this really helps and in a very timely way.”
“I have customers that want new cars. It’s just, what they want is not available, or it’s a year behind.”
Amid the broader labor crunch in the U.S. economy, employers in other sectors have similarly opened up positions to people whose criminal pasts once might have shut them out of jobs.
The gap between Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate and the national rate is among the widest it has been in decades.