{"id":237,"date":"2026-06-03T21:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingtoalaskausa.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:38:16","slug":"youd-be-crying-at-the-pump-this-alaska-villages-gas-was-8-44-before-the-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingtoalaskausa.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You\u2019d be crying at the pump\u2019: This Alaska village\u2019s gas was $8.44 \u2014 before the Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>This story is co-published by Northern Journal and Bethel-based public media outlet KYUK.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingtoalaskausa.com\/?p=235\">In a warming Arctic, gray whales struggle to find nourishment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HOOPER BAY, ALASKA \u2014\u00a0Every few weeks this winter, 75-year-old Harvey Joe, an Yup\u2019ik elder in this Western Alaska village, climbed onto his snowmachine.<\/p>\n<p>Dragging a sled with a fuel drum on top, he\u2019d bump 20 miles across the tundra to the neighboring village of Chevak.<\/p>\n<p>In Hooper Bay, on the shore of the Bering Sea far from Alaska\u2019s road system, fuel for Joe\u2019s home heating stove costs $9.24 a gallon, and unleaded gas costs $8.44.<\/p>\n<p>In Chevak, heating fuel was a few bucks cheaper \u2014 meaning that each 30-gallon load could save Joe $75.<\/p>\n<p>After dragging his sled home, Joe said he\u2019d have to lie down and rest, especially if the trail was rough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes, I ask somebody to do it for me,\u201d he said. \u201cBut if I don\u2019t have a choice, I just go and get it myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Across the country, consumers are contending with sharply higher fuel prices amid a supply crunch brought on by the closure of a key strait in the Middle East \u2014\u00a0the result of President Donald Trump\u2019s military action against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>But even residents of California, where $6-a-gallon gas prices are making headlines, would face sticker shock if they traveled to Hooper Bay, or any of the dozens of other villages and hub towns across Western Alaska. Even before the conflict, dozens of rural communities across the state faced gas and heating fuel prices above $7 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should come out here,\u201d said George Nanuk, another elder in Hooper Bay, who took a 100-mile snowmachine trip a few months ago to gather logs to keep his house warm. \u201cYou\u2019d be crying at the gas station.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Western Alaska\u2019s rural, coastal communities typically get an entire year\u2019s worth of fuel delivered by barge during the summer.<\/p>\n<p>The last summer delivery locks in prices for the fall, winter and spring \u2014\u00a0until ice and weather allow for the next year\u2019s first summer shipment, when the price changes again.<\/p>\n<p>Hooper Bay still hasn\u2019t received its first barge of the year. That means prices there are set to rise sharply when the first delivery arrives \u2014 with residents waiting to find out exactly how much.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d7628472.276135342!2d-170.33344082689356!3d64.56881264343009!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x573cc2a168476ce5%3A0x6c94fdd4fee12f7b!2sHooper%20Bay%2C%20AK!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1780427427819!5m2!1sen!2sus\" style=\"border: 0;\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Much of Western Alaska\u2019s supply comes in tankers from Asia,\u00a0where markets have been most acutely disrupted by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the region\u2019s fuel distributors issued dire warnings that they might not be able to secure adequate fuel for the summer shipping season. While those fears have since diminished, significant price increases still loom.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, barges have begun making their initial deliveries, and more rural buyers have placed their orders. The resulting prices\u00a0are giving the first glimpse of the scale of what leaders from Bristol Bay to the Bering Strait describe as an unfolding crisis that threatens the viability of their communities \u2014\u00a0which remain deeply dependent on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>While the region\u2019s Native residents have preserved many elements of their traditional lifestyles, communities need refined fuels for heating, electricity, transportation and to run the snowmachines and boats used for subsistence harvesting.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, in the Bristol Bay hub town of Dillingham, gas prices rose to more than $9 a gallon from less than $7 this winter. In some remote areas, they\u2019re set to rise to more than $10 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is something that could completely wipe out rural Alaska,\u201d said Nathan Hill, tribal president of the village of Kokhanok.<\/p>\n<p>The village, on the shore of Iliamna Lake in the Bristol Bay region, expects to charge $15 for a gallon of heating fuel once its summer shipment arrives, up from the current price of $10, according to its utility manager.<\/p>\n<p>The expense reflects the logistics of getting the fuel to Kokhanok: starting on the road system on Alaska\u2019s Kenai Peninsula, where it\u2019s loaded onto tanker trucks, which are boated across Cook Inlet, driven along a 15-mile portage road and finally loaded back onto another vessel for the trip along Iliamna Lake to Kokhanok.<\/p>\n<p>Even at last winter\u2019s $10 heating fuel price, Hill said he got phone calls from families who couldn\u2019t make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were asking me for wood,\u201d he said. \u201cThey couldn\u2019t do it at $10. So, there\u2019s going to be more of them at $15.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harvesting firewood can help, Hill added, but then \u201cwe\u2019re talking about running chainsaws and vehicles to go harvest,\u201d which requires more gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt affects everything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h4>Traditional harvests, modern technology<\/h4>\n<p>Many seasonal rhythms of life in Hooper Bay, population 1,375, still look much like they have for thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p>In the spring, hunters leave the village in small boats to harvest seals, walrus and beluga whale, while others stay closer to home to gather seabird eggs.<\/p>\n<p>In summer, the salmon arrive and the berries ripen, and in the fall, some residents range far from the village to look for moose, with harvests shared with family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>The average Hooper Bay household gathered some 1,485 pounds of food in 2021, or 330 pounds per person, according to the <u>most recent state data<\/u> available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all about chipping in, as a family, to get this and that,\u201d said Marlin Lake, 34, an avid harvester and father of five in Hooper Bay.<\/p>\n<p>These local harvests, referred to across Alaska\u2019s Native communities as subsistence,\u00a0 are essential in rural villages where groceries must otherwise be flown or barged in, often commanding steep prices.<\/p>\n<p>At Hooper Bay\u2019s local grocery store last week, Lake pointed out grapes \u2014 a luxury in rural Alaska \u2014 selling for $7.99 a pound, and half-gallon cartons of milk selling for $9, twice what they go for in Anchorage.<\/p>\n<p>Subsistence can help avoid those expenses. But today\u2019s rural Alaska harvests depend on modern technology \u2014 specifically, on motors powered by fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Last winter, one Hooper Bay man, Mason Nanuk, said he put 6,000 miles on his snowmachine for subsistence and other outings \u2014 including regular trips past Chevak, a village 20 miles away, to check his ice fishing net. Lake said he\u2019ll buy 130 gallons of gas \u2014\u00a0worth $1,100 at current prices \u2014\u00a0before a long boat trip up to the Yukon River to hunt moose.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, diesel powers Hooper Bay\u2019s electrical grid and fuels residents\u2019 Toyostoves, which are\u00a0used widely for home heating across rural Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>The four-wheelers that people drive around town run on unleaded gas, as do the pickup trucks that ferry people the mile to the community\u2019s dirt airstrip. Bush planes that serve as Hooper Bay\u2019s only link to the regional hub, Bethel, run on fossil fuels too \u2014 with one-way tickets priced at $320 for the 150-mile trip.<\/p>\n<p>Add a few dollars per gallon to the current fuel price, Nanuk said, and \u201cthat\u2019s going to be a lot harder to do more subsistence,\u00a0or even continue to do what I like to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m trying not to think about it,\u201d said Nanuk, 36.<\/p>\n<p>What doesn\u2019t make sense, he added, is why fuel prices are so high in Hooper Bay when so much oil is produced inside Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>The entirety of the Western Alaska mainland sits less than 1,000 miles from Valdez, the terminus of the trans-Alaska pipeline system. That pipeline moves as much petroleum in 30 minutes as Hooper Bay\u2019s industrial tanks store for an entire fall, winter and spring.<\/p>\n<p>But that 450,000-barrel-a-day supply is unrefined\u00a0\u2014 not in a form that can be used by Western Alaska communities.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska has just three oil refineries, and their limited capacity is geared toward producing unleaded gas, jet fuel and diesel for road system customers\u00a0\u2014\u00a0meaning that most of the state\u2019s crude moves by tanker to refineries on the U.S. West Coast.<\/p>\n<h4>Asian supply disrupted<\/h4>\n<p>Hooper Bay\u2019s link to the global petroleum market is the thin yellow pipeline that runs from the shore to the village fuel tanks operated by Crowley, an international shipping and energy company based in Florida that serves some 90 communities in Western Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingtoalaskausa.com\/?p=233\">In Alaska\u2019s U.S. Senate race, it\u2019s Mary Peltola, two Dan Sullivans and 12 others<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Crowley and Vitus, the region\u2019s other main supplier, have acquired gas and heating fuel from refineries in Asia; the products are then loaded onto foreign-flagged tankers, which are less expensive to charter than U.S.-flagged vessels.<\/p>\n<p>The tankers then steam across the Pacific toward Alaska, where they\u2019ll idle in federal waters several miles offshore so they don\u2019t have to develop state-level oil spill contingency plans, according to Bernie Nowicki, who monitors the ships in his job as a regulator at the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.<\/p>\n<p>Crowley and Vitus offload gas and diesel from the tankers at sea into their own barges, which are paired with tugboats. The fuel is then ferried to individual communities, sometimes far up rivers, as the tankers move along the coast \u2014\u00a0a logistically complex choreography that plays out over the course of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ll finish up their list, and then by the end of October the tankers are gone; the tugs and barges, they\u2019re back in their wintering locations,\u201d Nowicki said.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting prices are typically far higher than those paid by drivers in Alaska\u2019s road system communities. Last winter, gas was $7.11 in Teller, near the Bering Strait; $8.71 in Mountain Village, on the Yukon River; and $7.56 in Togiak, in the Bristol Bay region, according to a state survey.<\/p>\n<p>A Crowley spokesperson, Torey Vogel, said fuel prices in Western Alaska are driven by global fuel prices and availability, long-distance marine transportation, shallow-draft barging, seasonal storage, regulatory compliance and a short, ice-free window for deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany Western Alaska locations cannot be resupplied year-round, requiring fuel to be purchased, transported, stored and positioned well ahead of winter demand,\u201d Vogel wrote in an email. \u201cThat creates a very different cost structure than locations connected to highway, pipeline, rail or larger-volume supply chains.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Deliveries scrambled<\/h4>\n<p>Industry officials earlier this year warned that global oil market turmoil was threatening not just substantial price hikes in Western Alaska, but also whether distributors could even get access to enough supply to meet customer orders.<\/p>\n<p>The supply risk now appears to have diminished.<\/p>\n<p>Vitus\u2019 sales director, Mike Poston, said Monday that \u201cwe have the supply.\u201d Another Crowley spokesperson, David DeCamp, said in an email last week that fuel availability is \u201cmanageable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crowley is actively working to secure fuel from South Korea and Canada, DeCamp added, with 37 million gallons in \u201cconfirmed and pending volumes\u201d representing some two-thirds of customer needs, including winter inventory.<\/p>\n<p>But both Crowley and Vitus acknowledged that the global market volatility is putting pressure on prices. In Vitus\u2019 case, it has also scrambled the company\u2019s delivery schedule.<\/p>\n<p>In a typical year, Vitus would have its fuel tanker in position off the Western Alaska coast by mid-May, said Poston, the sales director. This year, though, its tanker hasn\u2019t arrived yet, and while Poston said it\u2019s coming, he declined to disclose exactly when it\u2019s set to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing the tanker to supply Western Alaska is the most efficient way, but because of product availability, we weren\u2019t able to do that,\u201d Poston said in a phone interview. \u201cSo, we\u2019re starting our system with fuel supply via barge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recent gas price increases to more than $9 from less than $7 at gas stations in two Western Alaska hub towns, Dillingham and Bethel, are representative of the cost structure that the company sees for 2026, Poston added. Given \u201cwarning signs\u201d of price bumps as high as $5 a gallon, those increases of less than $3 are \u201cgood news,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut summer is not over and the war is still going on,\u201d Poston said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what the future is going to bring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Vitus tanker\u2019s late arrival, Poston added, means the company will be \u201cunder pressure\u201d to meet customer orders before the end of the delivery season \u2014\u00a0when stormy weather and sea ice force companies to pull out of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Crowley, meanwhile, has started making deliveries from the Glen Cove, a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker that was loaded in Vancouver and is currently parked off the village of Egegik in Bristol Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Company officials would not say exactly how much they expect prices to rise this year. But Vogel, the spokesperson, said Crowley recognizes \u201cthe importance of price visibility and continue(s) to communicate with customers as market conditions develop.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>\u2018At the mercy\u2019 of markets<\/h4>\n<p>Local officials across Western Alaska and in other rural areas of the state are now girding themselves for price increases\u00a0\u2014 with the scale of the hit still uncertain in some communities.<\/p>\n<p>In Nome, the hub town just south of the Bering Strait, the local electric utility has a contract with Crowley for more than 1.5 million gallons of diesel, according to John Handeland, the utility\u2019s manager.<\/p>\n<p>But the exact cost isn\u2019t yet known because it\u2019s set by a 30-day average of a price index during the month the fuel is loaded onto Crowley\u2019s vessel, Handeland added \u2014 which will likely be August.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, the utility and its customers have to wait, placing them \u201cat the mercy\u201d of global markets, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll do some back-of-the-envelope calculations and some worst-case scenarios, just to make sure we have the right number when we pull out our fuel loan,\u201d Handeland said.<\/p>\n<p>High up on the Kuskokwim River in the hamlet of Sleetmute, Henry Hill, who operates the community\u2019s store and fuel station, says gas prices he charges are set to rise to $11.89 a gallon from $9.43 now.<\/p>\n<p>In the Yukon River village of Galena, meanwhile, the price for the city government\u2019s 425,000 gallons of fuel \u2014\u00a0used to run a municipal electric utility \u2014\u00a0has risen to $5.61 a gallon from $3.82 last year, said City Manager Shanda Huntington. That supply is barged down from the Tanana River on Alaska\u2019s road system, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to really hurt our community, because I have to adjust all the electricity rates on that \u2014 and that\u2019s going to really bump it up,\u201d Huntington said.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the Alaska Legislature, before its annual session adjourned last month, passed an array of policy measures aimed at softening the hit from higher fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>They include doubling the maximum amount, to $1.5 million, that communities and utilities can borrow under a state-sponsored loan program for bulk fuel purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Schools are getting another $29 million in energy relief<strong>, <\/strong>while $11 million is going to a low-income heating assistance program.<\/p>\n<p>Including more than $50 million budgeted for an existing program to offset high rural electricity prices, lawmakers are spending a total of some $100 million on relief, said House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, who represents a rural district centered in Dillingham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s not going to be close in terms of making people whole over what could be another cold winter,\u201d Edgmon said in a phone interview last week from Juneau. \u201cIt scares me to death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a Zoom meeting with constituents earlier that day, Edgmon said he heard anxiety, fear and \u201creal apprehension tied to the unknown\u201d about pending fuel price increases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe toll it\u2019s going to take on families \u2014 there\u2019s probably going to be some that aren\u2019t going to be able to keep their homes warm,\u201d he said. Nonetheless, he added, rural residents pride themselves on being resilient, and \u201cwe\u2019re going to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Hooper Bay, which is still awaiting its first fuel barge of the year, that resilience is already on display.<\/p>\n<p>In interviews last week, residents described their frequent trips to Chevak last winter to pick up cheaper fuel. Others took their snowmachines on long journeys in sub-zero temperatures to harvest wood, which residents burn to offset their heating bills.<\/p>\n<p>Those trips will likely become even more common once Hooper Bay gets its first summer fuel delivery,\u00a0further boosting prices.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, before the barge\u2019s arrival, Jay Bell Sr. pulled up to Crowley\u2019s pump to put $12 of gas into his four-wheeler. That paid for 1.4 gallons, which Bell said is enough to run errands for a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really struggling, even with stove oil,\u201d he said. \u201cIf it goes up, we\u2019ll have to budget more and tie up our stomachs, to keep our house and children warm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>If you value public interest journalism like this, please consider a voluntary paid membership to Northern Journal: It cost us $640 to reach Hooper Bay to report this story. If you\u2019re already a paid member, many thanks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingtoalaskausa.com\/?p=231\">In bid for re-election, Alaska U.S. Rep. Nick Begich defends against 14 challengers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas and heating fuel prices in rural Alaska were already high. 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