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Glenda Douglas of Shungnak, in the Northwest Arctic Borough, shared this photo on social media of a gasoline purchase she made on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. (Glenda Douglas photo)
It’s not a typo. The price of a gallon of gasoline in the northwest Alaska village of Shungnak was $26.82 on Friday, local residents and regional officials said, likely giving the community the dubious honor of having the most expensive gasoline in the United States.
“It is very much real,” said Glenda Douglas, who manages the store in Shungnak and posted a picture of the price on Facebook.
Across the United States, the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was $4.10 on Thursday.
Shungnak is about 280 river miles east of Kotzebue, up the Kobuk River, or 150 miles as the airplane flies. Air travel is the only reliable, year-round form of transportation.
In summer, the river is usually navigable by boat. In winter, residents travel by snowmachine. Last fall and for parts of this summer, water levels on the Kobuk were low enough to interrupt barge traffic, which contributed to the high price of gasoline.
“We sell groceries, diesel and gas,” Douglas said via Facebook message. “We had to get gas flown in twice this summer since (the) barge isn’t able to make it this way because the river water levels (are) too low. Just yesterday, the price was 13.99, but now it is 26.82.”
Shareholders in NANA Regional Corp. are eligible for a discount — they can buy gas for $21.46 per gallon.
Albie Dallemolle is NANA’s vice president of economic development and sustainability.
“Confirmed, Shungnak gasoline price is $26.82 per gallon, which had to be flown into the community,” she said by text message. “This price does reflect the highest cost for gasoline in the region … for now. Unfortunately, prices for gasoline and diesel are expected to increase once communities receive their fall barge deliveries.”
That’s because the current price is based in part on an average of the air-delivered fuel and cheaper barge-delivered fuel. New barge-delivered fuel, bought after the Iran War began, is expected to be more expensive than fuel bought before the war.
Shungnak frequently endures some of the highest fuel prices in Alaska.
In 2007, a gallon of regular unleaded was already $8.11 per gallon, so costly that the Wall Street Journal used the village as an example of what rural Alaska was experiencing that year. By 2022, the price was $14.03 per gallon, according to figures from the Northwest Arctic Borough.
In a message, Douglas said one thing that particularly concerns her is the fact that hunting season has arrived in the region.
Many people in the region practice a subsistence lifestyle, hunting and fishing for food they use to survive.
“(That price) is really going to hurt our hunters that pay for gas to hunt,” she said.
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How did Benny Blanco lose weight so quickly and so unconventionally?
Just shy of one year after he married Selena Gomez, he’s showing followers how “easy” it is to lose weight.
He shared a video montage in which he took followers through his week as he ate only one food.
That one food … was pizza?
How did Benny Blanco lose 4.7 pounds in one week?
In a recent TikTok video, the 38-year-old music producer — who is most famous for being married to the incomparable Selena Gomez — made an astonishing claim.
He alleged that people can lose weight “eating literally anything.”
Blanco even aimed to prove it, using himself as an example.
He stepped onto a scale, showing that he weights only 152.2 pounds. (There is some debate about Blanco’s exact height, but he is indisputably a short king.)
And his dietary strategy was … unconventional, to say the least.
According to Blanco, he consumed only a large thin crust pizza from Domino’s each and every day.
(When most people do this diet, it is likely the result of poverty. Blanco did it to prove a point.)
The TikTok shows a montage of clips of him eating nothing but this meal.
Blanco’s devotion was so great that he took pizza with him on a date to the Sunset Tower Hotel.
(Please do not do this. Blanco can get away with it because he’s Selena Gomez’s husband.)
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco are officially married.
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‘Nothing matters, do whatever you want’
By the third day of this experiment, Blanco was apparently tired of eating pizza.
“I hate my life,” he joked to the camera. We suspect that Blanco actually loves his extraordinarily fortunate life.
“I don’t even remember myself as a human being,” he joked on the fifth day. “Like, what was life before pizza?”
By the end, he has adjusted his attitude, as he feels “f–king good.” He also weighs 147.5 pounds.
“I just lost 4.7 pounds eating pizza,” Blanco declared to his followers. “Nothing matters, do whatever you want.”
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Is Benny Blanco’s somewhat nihilistic approach to health a good lesson? Well … kind of. Maybe.
First of all, weight loss is not synonymous with health.
People trying extreme gimmick diets can endanger their lives by excluding key nutrition, even if they lose weight or reap other benefits. One week of pizza won’t do that, but still.
Second, and not to put too fine of a point on it, but it is normal and healthy for a person’s weight to fluctuate by pounds every single day.
A person can go up or down 4.7 pounds by being well hydrated and eating a big meal, or by being briefly dehydrated and having used the restroom.
Benny Blanco Announces Weight Loss After Only Eating Pizza was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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