More than 100 million Americans are taking to the roadways to travel for the holidays, but that hasn’t had a large impact on gas prices. At the start of the work week, only about a dozen states are seeing more expensive gas prices with increases of less than a dime.
“AAA forecasts that 104 million Americans will travel by car – the most on record – for a year-end holiday,” said Jeanette Casselano, AAA spokesperson. “The substantial number of motorists has caused some state averages to increase heading into the holiday week, but these jumps aren’t big and won’t last long or linger past the holiday season.”
Today’s national average is $2.54, which is a penny less than last week and a nickel cheaper than last month. While the national gas price average continues to slowly edge cheaper, it is noticeably more expensive as compared to last year’s holidays – by nearly 20 cents. However, this isn’t deterring people from taking their holiday road trips and some states are seeing lower averages than last year.
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How does AAA know how many people will be traveling by car, do they have a crystal ball? And, how would they know how many people are in each car?
Nonsense.
They probably use an algorithm and plug in numbers from their databases. Since they are in the business of auto travel, they probably have a pretty good handle on that.
Every single holiday they put out a statement about record number of travelers. Yes, the population in this country continually grows, so what am I supposed to do with this info…
National average $2.54. The Chevron at Treat and Oak Grove was $3.75. Bend over if you’re going anywhere in California.
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