Vacations under threat as California’s oil stockpile hangs on by a thread

Source: New York Post

California’s summer travel season is facing mounting uncertainty as a global oil crunch and shrinking jet fuel reserves threaten to disrupt flights, drive up prices and complicate plans for millions of travelers. “People don’t know exactly how this is going to escalate,” Mike Duignan, a hospitality expert and professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, told the Los Angeles Times. “There’s a huge black cloud over the sea for the World Cup and the travel slump that we’re seeing is all linked to this oil shortage.