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The July Fourth holiday weekend marks the traditional start to the peak summer travel season, and it you are planning a road trip in coming weeks, don’t look for much of a break in gas prices. Roanoke actually has among the lowest prices in Virginia on average right now, but at around $2.87 a gallon for regular, that’s about a dollar a gallon more than July 2020. Experts say domestic production is slowly increasing, but supplies remain well below those from a couple of years ago. WFIR’s Evan Jones has more: