Will high gas prices cause you to change your summer travel plans?
Posted June 20, 2014 8:20 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – With summer officially underway, you may be looking forward to packing up your vehicle and getting out of town. But if that’s your plan, you’ll be paying a pretty penny for fuel.
Gas prices are already at record highs in Metro Vancouver. Some stations are already posting $1.56 a litre.
Don’t think they’ll be going down anytime soon; experts are predicting they’ll stay high throughout the summer. But some drivers aren’t letting that stop them from taking road trips.
Alan says his plans aren’t changing.
“You have to do what you have to do,” he tells us. “I have to drive, you have to pay for gas, and I need to go on holidays… I drive a boat… it costs gas [and it’s] expensive to drive.”
“I mean you haven’t got a choice right? There’s no break in gas prices, and you have to enjoy yourself,” he adds.
Meanwhile, Adrian says he’s planning to go to Mexico, but is looking for ways to save. “We wanted to go also to visit some friends in the Okanagan, so, maybe we’ll think about that.”
He adds they may be going for a shorter amount of time than they would if the price to get the car wasn’t so high.
Experts are expecting prices to be up to a $1.60 or even $1.70 a litre by this time in 2015.
