Gasoline becomes more affordable, just when Americans don’t need it – By Stephanie Kelly, Jessica Resnick-Ault (Reuters) / March 15 2020
NEW YORK (Reuters) – At two gasoline stations in Scarsdale, a wealthy suburb of New York City not far from one of the nation’s worst outbreaks of coronavirus, attendants whiled away the minutes on a rainy Friday morning at what would normally be their busiest time of day.
“We’ve had one or two customers – that’s it,” said Julio Barrios as he sat under an umbrella at the full-service Shell station in downtown Scarsdale. “For more than a week, business has been slow.”
The coronavirus has infected at least 138,000 people worldwide and killed more than 5,000, rocking the global economy.
As cases steadily grow across the United States, Americans are cancelling road trips, running fewer errands and finding they don’t have to drop their children off at school following widespread closings.
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