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High gas prices aren’t expected to hamper holiday travel

June 28, 2000 By admin

Many Iowans are expected to buckle down financially, buckle up their seat belts and hit the highway this holiday weekend, despite the high price of fuel.Triple-A Motor Club’s Iowa spokesman Daren Van Helden says bounding gas prices are an annoyance but they aren’t killing trips.The motor club predicts a four-percent increase in travel nationwide over the Independence Day weekend, the biggest one-year jump for the holiday since 1993. For the Midwest, a three-percent boost in vacationers is expected. Van Helden says gas prices are much higher than a year ago, but the prices aren’t stopping vacationers.The club’s latest gas price survey puts the national average at a dollar-65 a gallon. For Iowa, it’s a dollar-78. That’s 70 cents higher than the state average a year ago.

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