Gas prices force adjustments ahead of Memorial Day weekend
Gas prices are a lot like the weather right now. Wait five minutes, and they will change.
With the average price of gasoline in Butler County at $4.69 per gallon on Thursday, people like flight school student Logan Greenawalt have made adjustments because of the money it takes to fill their gas tanks.
"I've been going into work on my days off more," Greenawalt said. "I also haven't been going home a lot lately. I live in Somerset, and I go to school up here.
“I used to go home about every weekend, but now it’s about every three weeks."
Travel forecast
AAA estimates that about 39.2 million Americans will be traveling this weekend, which is up 8.3% from 2021.
"In some ways, Americans are driving less, and in some ways they're driving more," AAA spokesman Jim Garrity said.
AAA conducted survey in late February — before prices had a major spike — to ask drivers how higher prices would change their driving behavior.
Garrity said many consumers indicated that around the $4 per gallon mark is when they’d start to make changes to their daily driving habits.
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