 an opinion that really doesn't provide a lot of solid guidance to the lower core. Americans are digging deeper to fill up during this July 4th travel week, says Patrick DeHaan of the app GasBuddy, which locates cheap gas stations as prices are edging higher. Well, generally speaking, gas prices generally trend lower through the second half of the summer. The exception and wild card can be major hurricanes, so that's something that we'll keep a very close eye on.