Time to Fill Up!

     With the pandemic, we have seen many price fluctuations. Prices have increased immensely for some items, while prices for others have gone down. However, today, I want to focus on the price change in gas. I can remember about a week after the pandemic began, hearing my Dad come home from work telling all of us who had cars to go "fill up" soon, because the gas price had dropped to one dollar and twenty-five cents (one of the lowest prices seen in Kentucky in a very long time)! While I have not been living in the U.S. for long, this was the lowest I had seen gasoline prices in Kentucky. 

    I suppose it is pretty obvious that the reason for the price drop in gasoline was due to the road traffic dropping. Gasoline companies had no choice, but to drop their prices! The price remained low in my hometown for about a week. While it did seem almost pointless for me to fill my car up with gas while having nowhere to go, it was still nice to be able to fill up for such a low price and very interesting to see the almost full dollar decrease in gas. I was left completely in awe of how drastic of a change the pandemic could make in the environment. What I had not realized was that this gas price drop was just one of the few changes that would occur due to the pandemic.

                                    Gas price in my hometown at the beginning of the pandemic