China News Service, May 31. According to the US "Overseas Chinese News" report, the National Memorial Day long weekend is approaching, and the oil price in New York City is still rising. The price of ordinary gasoline in the Chinese community of Brooklyn Eighth Avenue, where Chinese people live, has exceeded 5 yuan per gallon. , High oil prices blocked the footsteps of Chinese travel.
On the 29th, the second day of the Memorial Day long weekend, the price of 87 regular gasoline at some gas stations in the Eighth Avenue Chinese community in Brooklyn has surged to 5.05 yuan per gallon.
Regular gasoline prices in New York state were $4.927 a gallon that day, and $4.61 a gallon in the U.S., according to the National Automobile Association (AAA).
At this point a year ago, regular gasoline was priced at 3.078 a gallon, which means New Yorkers will be paying almost $2 more per gallon for a Memorial Day trip this year.
Although the AAA expects nearly 35 million people to travel by car over the Memorial Day long weekend, high gas prices have prevented some Chinese from traveling.
According to Mr. Lin, the family did not travel this long weekend, although they were eager to go out at the beginning of summer to relax their minds and bodies under the epidemic.
But think about the high price of oil and the fact that other prices have risen a lot, and the only thing that doesn't go up is wages.
Therefore, in line with the principle of saving as much as possible, the family chose to stay at home.
Mrs. Li, a Chinese-American who lives in the Binchen market area, also said that their family did not travel abroad. In addition to considering the outrageous increase in oil prices, there were also heavy traffic jams on the road, which also made them feel lingering fears.
She said that one year, the family went to Washington for a long weekend of Memorial Day. The journey back took only more than 4 hours. Unexpectedly, it took more than 8 hours due to heavy traffic jams. At that time, there were so many cars on the highway that even the service area entered. Don't go, let alone gas, go to the toilet, and buy food.
Thinking about the current high oil prices, it is not worthwhile to make yourself pay more gasoline expenses due to traffic jams.
Mrs. Huang, a Chinese-American who lives in the Bay Ridge District, took her daughter and her family to Coney Island to play nearby on the 29th.
She said that in order to avoid the congestion and overcrowding of traveling on the Memorial Day long weekend, they chose to visit Puerto Rico during the off-peak travel period last week. At that time, they rented a car there and filled a tank of gas. It cost more than 80 yuan, which really surprised her, because this has never happened in her more than ten years of driving.
So they're not going anywhere this weekend, just wandering around the neighborhood.
In addition, Mrs. Huang is also fortunate that their family bought an electric car Tesla at the end of last year before oil prices soared, which allowed them to save a lot of driving expenses.
(Cui Guoqi)