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Gasoline prices deal blow to Memorial Day travelers
Friday, May 16, 2008
News OK -- Fewer Oklahomans and travelers across the nation are expected to travel 50 miles or more during the coming Memorial Day holiday, AAA Oklahoma announced Thursday.

The organization expects that 4,000 fewer state residents will make journeys of at least that length during the holiday, down from 525,000 a year ago.

Nationally, the number is expected to be down nearly 360,000, from the 38.23 million traveling a year ago.

Higher fuel prices are to blame.


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Friday, May 16, 2008
News OK -- Fewer Oklahomans and travelers across the nation are expected to travel 50 miles or more during the coming Memorial Day holiday, AAA Oklahoma announced Thursday.

The organization expects that 4,000 fewer state residents will make journeys of at least that length during the holiday, down from 525,000 a year ago.

Nationally, the number is expected to be down nearly 360,000, from the 38.23 million traveling a year ago.

Higher fuel prices are to blame.

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ponyup
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We stayed at home. Cleaned out the shed. Drove 4 miles to fill up both vehicles getting ready for work this week.
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I sure hope people did stay close to home. I know I did just that.
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so, what happended; less driving ? higher prices per gallon... prices back down today .. supply & demand ?
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staying home
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I am staying home, too.
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I'm staying home
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guess the pool will be crowded
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I'll be staying home, gotta buy food.
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I wasn't planning on going anywhere
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People were already cutting back last year. Need to look at 2 to 3 years back and see the %
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i can barely drive to work.
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Families need to stay at home and enjoy the day together.
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Fewer drivers this year.
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There are lots of vehicles on the roads and they could care less about the cost of fuel.
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I may take a 160 mile around trip, but not a sure thing.
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Yet more old news!
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This is less than a 1% change. From talking around the office and seeing the increase in bus ridership, I would have expected more to join the "holiday at home" crowd.
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Hasn't anything new happened in the past 3 days?
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So visit your local state park and quit complaining.
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Old news
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Just vacation closer to home.
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Wasn't really planning on going anywhere anyway. Thank goodness.
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I am staying home, but I almost always stay home on Memorial weekend. The roads are a mess with all the trailers/boats, etc. I'll travel next weekend, when there aren't so many people on the road.
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Stay home and watch the Indy 500.......Go Danica!!
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Duhhh
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draining me...
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The price went down this weekenk 1cent wow
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Ouch! But I wasn't going anywhere anyway. Wife hates to drive, and is projecting this opinion on our kids...
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If you do the math, less than 1% of the people suveyed are going to change how they drive this weekend. But the survey probably has a margin of error of at least 1%. Therefore, statistically there is no change in driving.
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I stay at home on Memorial Day anyway. It's too hard to put the gas grill into the trunk of the car...lol
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The typical weekend when gouging for the summer runs wild.
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Good news travels fast, bad news faster.
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Is it Memorial Day weekend already? I wasn't going anywhere anyway.
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Memory of low fuel prices
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No travel plans for Memorial Day anyway. We're mostly stay at home and enjoy our own place kind of folks.
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This shouldn't be a surprise.
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duh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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humm what does this tell us...
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so.
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A blow may have been dealt for travelers, but I am sure Big OIL enjoyed the day.
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Take a bike trip, on an HD of course . . .
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Was going to go out of town for Memorial Day weekend, but I think I am going to stay home and save up for the 4th of July.
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OLD NEWS
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I have no plans
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4000 out of 525,000 is less than 1%. How can they estimate that well and why is this small estimated change worthy of a news story?
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Right now I plan to stay home, although I may visit the in-laws about 40 miles away.
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Duh!
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I am going! If I don't go on an RV trip now, it will only be more expensive next time! I'll just have to cut out a few things like food and beer! (What am I saying?!!)
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I'm staying home.
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I will go nowhere.
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