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Is the great American road trip dead?
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Is the great American road trip dead?

Rising fuel prices are killing the best vacation ever — or are they?

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Christopher Elliott
Mar 13, 2022
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Cheap airline tickets couldn't do it. Road rage barely made a dent in it. And a two-year pandemic only made us want it more. But now, soaring gas prices are threatening to kill the great American road trip. 

Or are they?

The conventional wisdom says, yes, they are. A new survey from research firm Longwoods International suggests that higher prices at the …

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