Tourists drive to places, driving requires gas, with more people wanting to drive, this increases demand, and thus the price of gas due in part by the dwindling supply of gas. So it's nothing complicated there.

Second, you might want to check the news more, because the big oil outputs in the middle east, such as OPEC, have decided to reduce their crude oil per barrel output. They're pulling a DeBeers, and that's going to cause a rise in gas prices in the next few months, just as they have been rising from what I've been the price steadily rising and stagnating back and forth over here since the announcement first occurred.

fuck me.... didn't look at your name


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There, now you got +1 thumb out of it :)