OPINION:
Talk about being all dressed up with nowhere to go. Oil prices have collapsed worldwide as demand has cratered and Saudi Arabia has refused to curtail production. The upshot? Gas cheaper than it’s been in years: In the nation’s capital, never a particularly affordable area, local outlets are now offering regular unleaded at below $2 a gallon.
The trouble, of course, is that even as it’s rarely been cheaper to hit the open road, we’ve got nowhere to go. Travel is highly discouraged by the federal government, and tens of millions of Americans have been ordered to stay at home by their local governments unless they need to go out for absolute essentials. Parks, beaches, museums and hotels are shuttered.
T.S. Eliot remarked that April is the cruelest month. That will be reflected mostly this year in the grisly death tolls that await our country. But the cruel irony of affordable but impossible travel is another odd artifact of these troubled times.
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