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Record Gas Meets the Last Summer Weekend

TL;DR

CNBC files record Labor Day gasoline against the last summer road trip. Travel copy and pump copy share a holiday, not a $100 close.

MSM Perspective

CNBC files the holiday road. Position 5 already named the pump high. Monday does not clear 100.

X Perspective

Travel feeds treat a record pump as already a $100 oil close.

Record gasoline met the last summer weekend on the road. [1] CNBC filed the holiday pump against the trip home. [1] Travel copy and pump copy share a holiday and not a single cause. Print the road. Do not print a break above 100.

Open retailers and closed banks split the traveler's Monday. Position 5 already named the pump high. Brent in the nineties sits on another page. Leave a later 100 to a later edition. Print the weekend. Print not a $100 close.

Print the road. Monday is not a $100 oil close. A record pump is still a pump. Print the road as Monday's named travel hold. Closed banks are still not a collapsed trip. Print the weekend as still the last summer Monday. Print the pump as still not 100. Print the road as still the only honest holiday travel word.

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago

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