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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. Record pumps meet closed exchanges in the year's last summer ritual. Drivers pay; traders wait.

Rituals repeat; last summers end. Monday's ritual closes the season. Pumps reset Tuesday.

Tuesday's pumps reopen with the exchanges; Monday's stay ritual. Rituals end. Traders wait for the bell.

Record pumps meet closed exchanges. Drivers pay; traders wait. Monday is the last summer ritual, not a $100 close.

CNBC filed the last summer road trip against a record pump, not against a crude close. Dark exchanges sat while drivers paid the holiday sticker. Brent's nineties live upstairs on another page. This page clears no $100 print.
Actual, not a $100 close. Brent's nineties live upstairs on another page. This page clears no $100 print.

Actual, not a $100 close. Brent's nineties live upstairs on another page. This page clears no $100 print.

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago

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