As of Tuesday, the national average price for a gallon of regular gas, according to travel-services provider AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report, stood at $2.06.
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AAA predicted that almost 5 million will travel by vehicle over the four-day holiday weekend. Most US drivers will pay the lowest Thanksgiving gas prices since 2008. Higher levels of throughput from refiners coming back online following both planned and unplanned maintenance in the Midwest has help to push prices lower following an increase due to unexpected outages. “The oil prices started jumping around after that broke, but they are still going to be lower than past year”.
The average price of gasoline plunged 11 cents over the past two weeks, to $2.14 a gallon. Driving remains the most popular mode of travel, with 664,000 Coloradans driving this weekend and 53,000 heading to the airport for a flight.
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“We have family in Arizona and Washington state and I think we will be making trips that we probably wouldn’t have been doing when gas prices ere much higher”, Pederson says. “That’s my main concern”, he said Wednesday.
“It’s never been this low”, he said. “We haven’t seen him since June”.
“So blessed that he made it safely”, she said.
Maguire said that AAA is noticing a trend of more people traveling earlier in the week. Of those people traveling, about 42 million will be traveling by auto.
State police will be setting up roving patrols in the hopes of reducing the number of crashes on the roads and ask anyone who sees reckless drivers to call authorities. “I don’t know what he or she is going to spend it on, but it’s a substantial amount of money”, he said.
The Auto Club last week said Southern California was looking at $2.80 averages.
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More than five million visitors come to the city between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve, according to the city’s tourism agency. Lower gasoline prices since 2014 are linked to lower crude oil prices.
