Cost To Gas Up In Ashburn Before Christmas 2017 Travel

ASHBURN, VA — If you're planning to drive to a holiday destination in the next few days, you'd be wise to perhaps stay on the road a while before you get that next tank of gas. That's because, according to GasBuddy.com, Ashburn's gas prices are around 30 cents more expensive than the Virginia average.

Around mid-day on Thursday, prices in the area averaged about $2.55 per gallon. Statewide, the average is $2.23. Nationally, we're talking an average of $2.42, according to AAA.

One station had the lowest price per gallon at $2.53: the Exxon at 22405 Flagstaff Plaza. Next up also were Exxons, at $2.57 per gallon: 43305 Junction Plaza, 43971 Farmwell Hunt Plaza, 21880 Ryan Center Way and 43740 Parkhurt Plaza. Nearby, though, Leesburg's gas prices, on the low end, average about $2.26 per gallon.

Meanwhile, GasBuddy has Washington DC with averages of about $2.25 per gallon at the lowest-priced stations. If you're headed about an hour or so south to Richmond, the lowest prices average around $2.05 per gallon.

All of that ties into what AAA is predicting to be quite the busy holiday travel season, perhaps even record breaking. From Dec. 23-Jan. 1, the travel safety organization says 107.3 million folks will hit the road, as it were, via planes trains and automobiles. That would be the highest year-end travel volume on record — and a 3.1 increase from a year ago.

A total of nearly eight million people living in Virginia, Maryland, and the Washington metro area will travel 50 miles or more from home during the Christmas/New Year's Holiday travel period. Of that number 7.2 million of those travelers will drive to their Christmas and New Year's Eve holiday destinations.

Forty-four percent of the Washington metro area's 6,131,977 residents plan to take a trip for the Christmas/New Year's holiday travel period with 91 percent of them traveling by vehicle.

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