Justin McNaull
Justin McNaull
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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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Certainly in the Northeast, the holiday has gotten off to a less-than-fortuitous start.
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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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Really, the economy is the largest factor that's out there.
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It could be three or five stations on one stretch running out - that's a fairly real situation that is happening.
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Labor Day seems to be going out with more of a whimper than a bang, depending on where you are.
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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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In a lot of metro areas, this evening has the potential to be the worst rush hour. If rush hour normally begins at 4, for a lot of cities it will begin at 1 o'clock and won't let up until well after dark.
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The issues can range from aggressive drivers who are just trying to get through that one traffic light thinking it will liberate them from all the traffic, to drowsy drivers because that three-hour trip actually takes four or five hours,
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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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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 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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Absent Rita, we should have seen gas prices continue to fall.