Gas prices are projected to hit the lowest level in more than two decades on Memorial Day, according to the fuel price tracker GasBuddy.

The price would be the lowest nominal level since 2021. Adjusted for inflation, the cost would be the lowest since 2003. The price is expected to remain low over the summer, potentially dipping below the $3.00 a gallon mark.

The projected price is a significant drop from where the national average hit a year ago at $3.58. In 2022, the cost of gas over Memorial Day was over a dollar more at $4.60.

“Gas prices are dropping to the lowest in YEARS ($3.08 on Memorial Day, possibly sub-$3 later this summer)!” posted GasBuddy.

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Gas prices are dropping to the lowest in YEARS ($3.08 on Memorial Day, possibly sub-$3 later this summer)!

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Nearly seven-in-ten Americans, 69%, plan to take a road trip at some point this summer. That is a slight drop from last summer when 76% of Americans said they planned to take a road trip, according to a GasBuddy survey.

“While we’re forecasting the lowest summer gas prices in years, economic jitters are slightly dampening optimism — but we still expect a robust travel season, with millions of Americans hitting the road, many for extended trips,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, said in a statement.

The drop in gas prices comes as the Trump administration has made lower fuel costs a priority. The administration has taken steps to cut investment in uneconomic green projects such as solar and wind power and encouraged fossil fuel development.

In February, Trump established the National Energy Dominance Council, an inter-agency council headed by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Energy Secretary Chris Wright serves as the council’s vice-chair. The council aims to boost fossil fuel production to lower costs for Americans as well as bolster the United States’ economic and national security.

“I’m going to share two words that I do not think that you have heard from a federal official in the Biden administration during the last four years. And those two words are thank you,” Burgum told a gathering of oil, gas, and mining executives in March, making clear the administration’s support for those sectors.

The Trump administration’s approach to energy was a sea change from that of former President Joe Biden. Under the Biden administration, the government saw climate change as an existential threat and poured funding into green energy projects while taking steps to tamp down fossil fuel use.

Fuel prices surged under Biden. In June 2022, AAA found the national average for a gallon of gas had hit $5.00, the first time AAA had marked that price since it began tracking the price of gas in 2000. Fuel prices remained elevated well over the $2.39 figure that began Biden’s presidency for the rest of his term.

A bust of singer Jim Morrison that was stolen from “The Doors” legendary frontman’s gravesite in 1988 has been recovered by accident, French police have announced.

“After 37 years of absence, the bust of Jim Morrison, stolen in 1988 from the Père Lachaise cemetery, has been found,” the Paris Regional Judicial Police Directorate said in an Instagram post.

“During an investigation conducted by the Financial and Anti-Corruption Brigade of the Directorate of Judicial Police of the Prefecture of Police, under the authority of the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office, this iconic symbol for the singer’s fans was recovered.”

The prosecutor’s office called it a “chance discovery made during a search ordered by an examining magistrate at the Paris court.”  

Morrison, former singer of The Doors and best known for songs such as “Light My Fire” and “Break on Through,” was found dead at the age of 27 in the bathtub of his Paris apartment in 1971. He was buried at Père-Lachaise, a cemetery filled with other famous figures including Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, and Edith Piaf.

Fans have been flocking to the singer’s gravesite ever since, especially on special occasions such as the anniversary of his death on July 3. Celebrations there have sometimes gotten rowdy, with police being forced to disperse a crowd in 1991 using tear gas.

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The 300-pound bust made by Croatian sculptor Mladen Mikulin was added to Morrison’s tombstone on the 10th anniversary of his death, then disappeared seven years later.

Jeff Jampo, manager of Morrison’s estate, told CNN that he’s “happy to hear” the bust was found. 

“Obviously it’s a piece of history, and one Jim’s family wanted there on his grave, so it’s gratifying to see that it’s been recovered. Now we’ll have to see what kind of shape the bust is in,” he told the outlet.

There has been no indication of what will be done now that the bust has been found.

“I think it would be incredible if they put the bust back onto where it was and it would attract so many more people, but the cemetery wouldn’t even be able to hold that many people,” Paris tour guide Jade Jezzini said, according to the Associated Press. “The amount of people who would rush in here just to see the bust to take pictures of it, it would be incredible.”