According to AAA, the national average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline is $4.60. That’s up $1.50 compared to this time last year. In Mobile and Baldwin counties, the prices range from $3.95 and $4.35 a gallon. Those prices are not expected to stop people from driving as summer unofficially kicks off this weekend, though. AAA projects 39.2 million travelers this weekend, including 34.9 million by automobile.
) - Victoria Keene pulled into a gas station Friday, weary after a long drive from Hutchinson, Kansas, but even more exhausted by the cost of gas.
“It’s not fair. Perfect example – on Memorial Day, you should be able to go,” she said as she prepared to fill up yet again for the rest of her journey to Clearwater, Florida. “My brother’s been a Marine 20-some years now. And he can’t go anywhere. And either that or you make a sacrifice. Anybody that’s going anywhere for Memorial Day is making a sacrifice. It’s a labor of love and this is what people are doing.
Those prices are not expected to stop people from driving as summer unofficially kicks off this weekend, though. AAA projects 39.2 million travelers this weekend, including 34.9 million by automobile. “It’s ridiculous,” she said. “I mean, I had this planned already. …This was already planned, never knowing that this was gonna happen.”
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