Gas Prices Hit New Record High

Pray for me.

My wife decided months ago that we were going on our long planned road trip through the Southwest in early June. My son’s birthday is coming up soon and he has been telling his classmates all year that he is going to Arizona to see the Grand Canyon. We booked all of our hotels well in advance.

Axios:

“The national average price for regular gasoline jumped to a new all-time high of $4.37 a gallon on Tuesday, breaking the previous record set in March by four cents, according to AAA.

Why it matters: The new record, which isn’t adjusted for inflation, comes as rising prices put pressure on the Biden administration to help consumers. Diesel prices also hit a new high of $5.50 a gallon.

President Biden is expected to announce a new plan on Tuesday aimed at helping Americans mitigate the costs of inflation. …”

We couldn’t have picked a better time to drive from Alabama to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado to the Grand Canyon in Arizona to the Pacific and back. It sounded a lot more fun before this war in Ukraine. My wife loved those long distance road trips in her childhood and she wanted to do something similar.

Note: I’m going to be on the road from June 1 through June 14. This shouldn’t be much of a problem because I am always updating the site through my smartphone anyway.