The challenge that gas station operators are having now is not knowing when the next shipment is coming and how much they will be getting.

In a lot of metro areas, this evening has the potential to be the worst rush hour. If rush hour normally begins at 4, for a lot of cities it will begin at 1 o'clock and won't let up until well after dark.

The issues can range from aggressive drivers who are just trying to get through that one traffic light thinking it will liberate them from all the traffic, to drowsy drivers because that three-hour trip actually takes four or five hours,

It's still going to be a couple of days before we get a better grasp about how refineries and pipelines across the network will recover.

It's all over the map. Here in the D.C. area, schools don't get out until Thursday, making for a very short travel period.

It's a rare American who will pay less than $2 a gallon this year, ... That said it (gas) is still a small part of the travel cost, and it's tough to tell Grandma you're not going to visit because it's going to cost $5 more to fill up the car.

It might end up being smaller than that

Absent Rita, we should have seen gas prices continue to fall.

There were folks who thought they were early bookers in September who may have found out all the cheap seats on the flight they wanted were gone already.

They start to nod off because they don't take the breaks that they should.