Gas prices hit historic highs this month. The average cost of a gallon of gas in the United States on March 11 was $4.33, the highest price ever recorded by AAA, the automobile owners group
Gasoline prices are displayed at a gas station following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in Washington, U.S., March 13, 2022.
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With her 11-year-old cat, Prince, resting on the center console of her Honda CR-V, Michele Peters recently drove 13 hours south from her home in Chesapeake, Virginia, to Osprey, Florida, for some much-needed rest and relaxation.
It had been five years since Peters, 67, enjoyed a long vacation, and $4 for a gallon of gas wasn’t going to stand in her way. “Why I was coming down here — the peace and tranquillity — was worth 10 times that,” she said earlier this month, while overlooking Little Sarasota Bay.
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