THE SHELBY INDEPENDENT

By Alan Wooten | The Center Square A vehicle is refueled at a gas pump as evening light reflects off its surface. Photo: Alan Wooten / The Center Square Affects Local / The Center Square – Diesel fuel is up 84% and regular unleaded gasoline up 58.2% in North Carolina, each since the first of the year adding misery for consumer goods pricing that relies on the trucking industry. Voters are already marking ballots in the nation’s longest voting window and what is in their walle

By Alan Wooten | The Center Square A vehicle is refueled at a gas pump as evening light reflects off its surface. | Alan Wooten, The Center Square Affects Local – Forecast to take weeks not days for significant movement, a modicum of relief for traditional transportation energy prices has blown in with North Carolina’s weekend pollen. Monday’s average price statewide for a gallon of unleaded gasoline, according to AAA, was $3.89. That’s down from $3.90 a day earlier, $3.94