Justin McNaull
Justin McNaull
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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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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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Really, the economy is the largest factor that's out there.
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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 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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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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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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Absent Rita, we should have seen gas prices continue to fall.
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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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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.
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They start to nod off because they don't take the breaks that they should.
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The thing we hit as we head into fall is leaf-peeping, and leaf-peeping takes a lot of gas,