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High gas prices squeeze U.S. food banks ahead of Memorial Day

financeMay 22, 2026272,619

Rising gasoline and diesel prices are squeezing U.S. food banks ahead of Memorial Day, raising delivery and pickup costs and reducing donors' ability to bring goods to drop-off sites. The national gas average is projected at $4.48 per gallon for the holiday weekend while a record 45 million Americans are expected to drive, and 16 states including Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Michigan, Minnesota, and Oregon are on track to hit new Memorial Day price records. Those higher fuel bills are stretching food banks' budgets, forcing some to reroute or cancel mobile pantry runs, cut back deliveries from refrigerated trucks, and urgently seek extra funding as holiday demand for assistance rises.

The Tennessee Holler
@thetnholler.bsky.social

SPOTTED in rural Tennessee: “Iran your gas prices up” sticker⛽️

239718d ago
EARNED MY SPURS: "THE THOUGHT POLICE ARE HERE" 🐎35

The best part about these stickers, to me, is the use of the picture of the ignorant fool pointing at the solar eclipse with no eye protection.

Geoffrey L28

Coming soon to pumps everywhere.

🔥💀👹💀🔥22

And im sure we'll be seeing more of those around TN👹

Adina B11

Actually, I want a sticker with a MAGA voter that says “We did that”

Hoosier leftist9

Every time I get gas I slap one on

Debby33 ❌ 👑9

Get your "Trump Did That!" Stickers on Etsy today! 😃 www.etsy.com/market/trump...

Gareth Penn8

$4.15/gallon? [snort] There are gas stations around here that have already shot past $6, with the rest poised to follow suit.

Michael Little8

Sadly, they're willing to pay any price to keep POC from voting.

Lummus Cain7

I love what this tells me—that somewhere in a heavily gerrymandered red state there is a blue resistor who's decided not to conform to groupthink/peer pressure and is performing a small act of civil disobedience. To Republicans, you may not see them but, rest assured, they are there. We are here.

don't touch my bread, guvment 🏴5

Saw $4.29 while I was driving last night and was once again thankful for my EV. Get on that train if/while you can, folks. There are affordable used cars out there. I just got my second one for about $7,000. The more people switch, the more pressure there'll be to build charging stations.

icanseeforleon.bsky.social5

It’s great that’s the pic of him looking directly at an eclipse.

diggits15

Minnesota - YEP I did that! Come and get Trump you defective weak pussy ass pedophile

Olivia5

Meanwhile in my neck of the woods... Yeah. Let me apply for those slush fund reparations too.

Ma Joad ✌️5

Love it when cleverness blossoms in resistance.

𝙍𝙚𝙜𝙣𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙣 × ᚱᛁᚴᚾᛘᛅᚾᚾ5

You think that's something? Look (closely) at this insane amount!

xVxGenX5

I wish I could get 13 gallons of gas for $54! It’s over five dollars a gallon for regular where I live in Oregon. Really tough on us commuters :(

Bobby the Phish (BTP)4

13 gallons for $54 bucks is a steal. Even for 87.

David A. Conrad, Ph.D.4

Sigh. I've been waiting to see more of these stickers, but the pun doesn't work and undermines the point. Low literacy folks will just see "Iran."

Ellie Joel4

Wont matter - they've been programmed to see him as God-like and entertaining doubts about him are blasphemous.

✨️WitchyWoman✨️3

Okay I need these stickers

Jaina B (ANTIFA Platoon Leader)3

no stickers in rural Eastern Washington, but I can be creative in other ways

dons3

Come to the West Coast and you won't see anything within a dollar of $4.14 a gallon. At least not near me.

josefrom1979.bsky.social2

70$ for 14 gallons more expensive than this.

LessBarb2

Not me. I'm only plopping them on in FL.

alaskan-dreams.bsky.social2

our gas 5.09 husband is a fisherman deisel over 6. gal., gonna cost allot to make a living...

Prolapsed Cologne2

Put this one on my local station yesterday. Buy some sticker stock online and get printing! Lol

🎼 FillmoreFan 🎸🍄🍑🏈 #HereWeGo🐗 🖤💛🗽 #NeverForget 🙏🏼☮2

Just drove round trip PA to AR ~1900 miles. Spent ~$350 on gas with prices avg $4.34/g.

iceqwn.bsky.social2

Filled my truck up 2 days ago to avoid Holiday overpricing this weekend. Even when I lived in Hawaii for 7yrs, I never paid this much for gas!

Grumpy Zeus2

I want some of those stickers.

Political Warrior2

He's really saying: "IRAN your gas prices up your asses and I don't give a fuck about you or your household finances!"

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