Jun. 7—Logansport residents are cutting their expenses in other areas to cope with rising gas prices.
Cars zoomed into the Speedway, 2875 E. Market, Tuesday afternoon at a steady pace to fill up despite the $5.25 a gallon price.
The national average for gas prices was $4.91 Tuesday, according to AAA. The Indiana average was $5.15. The average for Cass County was $5.19.
Carroll and White counties also averaged $5.19 a gallon while Miami County was at $5.05 and Fulton County at $5.03.
Switzerland in Southern Indiana had the cheapest gas in the state at $4.86 a gallon.
Jack Heywood was filling up his truck Tuesday afternoon and said he's spending less money on food to make up for the rising gas costs.
"I just have to alter my budget," he said. "I usually do a budget at the first of the month and I have my food and gas sections and I have had to adjust that and be more careful with what food I buy because I am going more heavy on the gas side of that."
Gail Schnidau stopped at the gas station with her grandkids. She said extra thought has been put into whether it's important to make the drive someplace or not.
"I'm just wondering what is going to happen with school buses this upcoming year," she said. "Are they going to run the buses or are they going to go to virtual learning?"
Quentin and Natasha Pearson have an 11-year-old daughter, which added extra traveling for doctor's appointments.
"We had to cut back on a lot of food," she said. "We've also had to borrow a lot of money from my mom and dad, which eventually I will have to pay back. I'm just trying to do everything I can to stay on my feet."
Gas prices have increased all over the world with Hong Kong citizens paying $11.20 a gallon in U.S. dollars at the end of May, according to the last update on globalpetrolprices.com.
Pearson feared the worst is still to come.
"I hear it's just going to get higher," she said. "Save as much money as you can now so you can have extra money for gas."
Gov. Eric Holcomb said last week he had a proposal for giving Hoosiers relief from skyrocketing inflation, pending the release of the state's revenue numbers.
Holcomb didn't specify his approach to relief but said that he had no plans to suspend the gas tax. The tax rate on gasoline is taxed at 32 cents per gallon with an additional 24 cents per gallon in sales tax. The federal government taxes 18.4 cents per gallon.
"I'm not interested in suspending the gas tax because I don't want to delay the progress we're making on one (area) at the expense of trying to help in another area," Holcomb said. "Hopefully there's help coming but we also need some help sooner rather than later on the national front."