Fewer car trips planned for Memorial Day weekend

Are you planning a road trip anywhere this holiday weekend? The continued high price of gas is having an impact not just on my out of town travel, but my in town travel as well. I saw first hand how high gas prices are having an impact at the grocery store. I would wage that my groceries were about $40.00 higher than they were from the beginning of the year. For example, velvetta cheese two weeks ago was $4.98, today it was $5.88. What the????  HELP!!!!!!

Fewer Americans plan to launch their summer season behind the wheel of an automobile this year, but a bump in air travel plans suggests that, overall, more people intend to get away from home this summer.

The high price of gas will deter some people from driving over Memorial Day weekend, the traditional kickoff of summer in the United States, according to a national survey by AAA.

With the price of gas $1.06 higher than it was a year ago — at $3.91 a gallon nationwide — the number of people who told AAA they would drive more than 50 miles from home slipped by 100,000 to 30.9 million.

Forty percent of would-be travelers said that gas prices would have an impact on their vacation planning, although nine out of 10 who said they would be traveling planned to do so by car.

A minuscule uptick in the overall number of people who are making Memorial Day weekend travel plans was attributed to increases in air travel.

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