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Heavy Traffic, Cheap Gas for Fourth of July Weekend
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While AAA says this will be the worst traffic ever on a US holiday, at least gas prices won’t be so bad.
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Nearly 43 million of us will be traveling this weekend, according to AAA.That will make the total 5 million more than the numbers of cars that were on the road for Memorial Day weekend.
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On the bright said, the gas you are wasting sitting in traffic is probably the cheapest since 2005.
Fox Business said the national average for gasoline, according to GasBuddy.com, will fall 50 cents from this time last year.
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That, one analyst said, is the opposite of the general consensus that prices go up before a travel holiday.
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