Justin McNaull
Justin McNaull
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Drive your most sensible car. If it's a trip to the grocery store, don't take the pickup, take your compact car.
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The thing we hit as we head into fall is leaf-peeping, and leaf-peeping takes a lot of gas,
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Thanksgiving's the most intense travel period of the year, when you look at the sheer numbers of people taking to the skies and highways in a short period of time. It makes for crowded, and sometimes treacherous, roads.
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Certainly in the Northeast, the holiday has gotten off to a less-than-fortuitous start.
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When most of us drive 200 to 300 miles one way for Thanksgiving, it's usually only means an extra 10 or 12 bucks from higher gas prices, which isn't a deal breaker.
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It's still going to be a couple of days before we get a better grasp about how refineries and pipelines across the network will recover.
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It might end up being smaller than that
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It's a rare American who will pay less than $2 a gallon this year, ... That said it (gas) is still a small part of the travel cost, and it's tough to tell Grandma you're not going to visit because it's going to cost $5 more to fill up the car.
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It's all over the map. Here in the D.C. area, schools don't get out until Thursday, making for a very short travel period.
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The real downside of this hysteria is that people hear rumors about outages in other towns and rush out to gas up, thereby increasing the likelihood of gas lines and outages in their own town.
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The rates you'll pay depend on the card you carry, the bank that issues the card and the merchant's policies. They all can have varying rates, so the actual cost to you is some combination of those three different aspects.
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They start to nod off because they don't take the breaks that they should.
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Absent Rita, we should have seen gas prices continue to fall.
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There were folks who thought they were early bookers in September who may have found out all the cheap seats on the flight they wanted were gone already.