Absent Rita, we should have seen gas prices continue to fall. |
Certainly in the Northeast, the holiday has gotten off to a less-than-fortuitous start. |
Drive your most sensible car. If it's a trip to the grocery store, don't take the pickup, take your compact car. |
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. |
It could be three or five stations on one stretch running out - that's a fairly real situation that is happening. |
It might end up being smaller than that |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Labor Day seems to be going out with more of a whimper than a bang, depending on where you are. |
Really, the economy is the largest factor that's out there. |
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. |
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. |
The challenge that gas station operators are having now is not knowing when the next shipment is coming and how much they will be getting. |
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, |