Gas hitting record highs for holiday travel

Gas prices have just reached a new high during this holiday season. Prices have just risen fifteen cents and don’t look like they are falling anytime soon. Prices are expected to rise another ten cents before the end of the year. Since Thanksgiving of last year gas prices have risen and fallen countless times and are currently ninety cents higher than they were at this time last year and have currently capped off at an average of three dollars and eleven cents a gallon. Over thirty-eight million people will be traveling to family this weekend and of those eighty percent of them will be driving and another 4 million will be traveling by plane. Prices of gas and any other mode of transportation for that matter will be very pricey no matter where you turn. Over twenty-five millions passengers will be flown world wide over the next twelve-started November 16) with planes around ninety percent full.

One thing about Americans, they won’t let a little thing like gas prices stop them from going on a holiday. Good in ways but terrible in other. With gas prices rising people are doing little to cut back on their driving, instead they are just cutting other things from their lives, like eating out and expensive clothing. No matter how high gas prices get and how much people complain about them we will still keep buying gas to get around since most of us are too lazy to walk of bike to our destinations. Holidays really bring out the worst in people. Raising gas prices at traveling time is a cheap shot to people’s pocket books. Sure I would want to make a profit as well but why make having a good time more expensive than it has to be?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/11/15/holiday.travel.ap/index.html