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AAA projects 795,200 Marylanders will travel 50 or more milex from homethis Thanksgiving, down 1.4 percenft compared with last year. A decline this year woulde mark the fourth straight holiday witha year-over-year decline in travelers, AAA said. The predictionx come as the price for a gallon of gas in Baltimore has dropped in half since the A gallon of regular gas in Baltimor e wasaveraging $1.94 on Thursday, according to AAA’s Dailyh Fuel Gauge Report. During the summer, the average priced in the region hoveredaroun $4 a gallon.
“Thisa Thanksgiving holiday, it seems Americans are in a tug of war betweeh their heart strings and their purse stringxs in terms of travel saidRagina C. Averella, a spokeswoman for AAA Mid-Atlantic, in a “However, despite America’s economic woes, the desired to spend time with familyu is still an obvious priorit given the nominal decline inoverall travel.” AAA said earlie this week 41 million Americans were expected to travel 50 or more mile s from home this Thanksgiving. The 33.2 million, expect to travel by automobile, down 1.2 percent from last In Maryland, 649,600 travelers will travel by car. More than 4.5 milliobn U.S.
travelers this year are projected to travel by plane, a 7.2 percent year-over-yeafr decrease. But in Maryland, the decline in travelers by planeeis larger, at 8.6 percent.
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