joining us right now is vera gibbons and robinson claire of aaa.era, the gas prices, as we know, have been rising but we're still below whe we were a year ago. >> we're expecting lower summer gas prices that we've seen since 2005. the ten-year memorial day average is 3.15. we're significantly below that at 3.32. that's inspiring a lot of people to hit the road. but in addition to that, you have other factors contributing to it, like the heightened terrorism fears and europe travel is down by 13%. you've got the zika virus. it's too risky. let's play it to home. this has a lot of people saying let's not fly anywhere and throw the kids into the car and take that road trip, low gas prices and hit it. >> and be ready to sit in traffic, too. >> americans save $18 billion on gasoline so far compared to last and we've seen heavy road travel all this year. the energy information administration says we're using 23 million gallons per day and that's a record and something we normally see in late april. and when there was sno and ice on the ground, people wer