but what is more significant at least in my view is that home heating oil prices are right now sort of in limbo because demand for heating oil because of our warmer winter is really declining. so the refiners are caught in sort of, you know, a situation where they re watching their margins drop, they re watching their top line drop, and as a result they re trying to hold prices higher, in some case move prices higher, for gasoline to offset what they re losing with home heating oil. now, the reality is that iran s not helping in any way, but what we re watching here is a little more complicated than just iran. alisyn: okay, that s interesting. so is there any way to predict what this means for spring prices or summer prices? the likelihood, as you said, it will mean higher prices. to what degree we don t know because basic supplies are still running high. our inventories of crude oil are still running high, and the
year. this year summer prices are up pretty dramatically. even yesterday united announced their june numbers were up 30% or so, so ticket prices are up, but there are some deals starting to roll out now as we get closer to that magic number, which is august 22nd. so if you fly after august 22nd, lots of deals out there. in between there, we ve gt a few deals. things like orlando from philadelphia and some international deals that have been really expensive lately are now starting to come down a little bit. including taxes and fees, 189 round trip. philly to oslo, 384 each way, but additional taxes and fees not included. absolutely. let me go through this quickly. ups are saying this week they have a solution to lost luggage. you can ship ahead of time with them. the shipping giant now has luggage shaped boxes so you can
we had the cheapest ticket prices in the last decade last year. this year, summer prices are up pretty dramatically. even yesterday, united announced that their june numbers were up 30% or so. so ticket prices are up. but there are some deals starting to roll out now as we get closer to that magic number which is august 22nd. so if if you fly after august 22nd, lots of dealing out there. in between there, we ve got a few deals. things like orlando from philadelphia and some international deals that have been really expensive lately are now starting to come down a little bit. philly to orlando including taxes and fees $11$189 round tr. let me switch gears. u.p.s. is saying they have at solution on lost luggage. ship it ahead of time with them