Gas Prices Affect Memorial Day Travel

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Gas Prices Affect Memorial Day Travel

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Story Created: May 15, 2008 at 6:23 PM CDT

Story Updated: May 15, 2008 at 10:06 PM CDT

Triple A says gas prices will keep Americans from traveling by car this Memorial Day weekend.
The automobile club expects nearly 400,000 people to skip trips that are more than 50 miles away from home.
Officials say gas prices are just too high; the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded is $3.78 a gallon. It's $3.69 in Texas and $3.66 in Oklahoma.

Saturday, May 17 at 3:10 PM Someone Stole My Gas wrote ...

The only thing that ticks me off more then the ridiculous gas prices is the fact that someone kept stealing gas right out of my car! People "siphoned" (it means sucking gas out of my gas tank) multiple times in the middle of the night in front of my house, in parking garages near my office, etc. It made me SOOO MAD that a $60 tank of gas was stolen multiple times. I found a website where I bought a *locking gas cap*. Now people can't take my gas cap off to steal my gas. I wish I would have

Friday, May 16 at 11:56 AM Michael Lewis wrote ...

Demand $2 a Gallon Gas Oil was $120 a barrel May 5th. Germany fueled WWII with synthetic fuel from coal. America, with 1/3rd of Earth’s coal, can be independent of foreign oil for an estimated $55 a barrel. Also, reducing our trade imbalance keeps jobs in America. Every billion deficit costs 13,000 jobs. $400 billion for oil last year: do the math. And we stop sending billions to countries that sponsor terrorism. Harness your anger at the pump. Call you're US Senators and demand

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