Gas Prices Not Keeping People Home From The North Dakota State Fair
Attendance for the opening weekend of the fair was up about 3,000 from last year.
A fair official is quoted as saying that attendance must have been up because gas prices kept people closer to home, but that’s a rather absurd way of looking at it. Opening weekend attendance was 86,794. There are only about 35,000 people in Minot, meaning that some of those people came from out of town.
Everyone wants to panic about gas prices, but again and again citizens and the economy their drive prove a lot more resilient than any of the hysterics want to admit.













