Expensive gasoline is keeping more US drivers off the road than the Covid-19 pandemic did at this time two years ago. The country’s demand for gasoline tumbled last week to 8.06 million barrels a day, below the same week in 2020 and the lowest seasonally since 1996, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Aside from the same period two years ago, the four-week rolling average of gasoline demand was the lowest on a seasonal basis since 2000. The drop in demand followed a modest rise in the prior week when fuel retailers stocked up ahead of the July 4th weekend. But the holiday bump proved as marginal as it was fleeting: The numbers now paint a clearer picture of demand faltering amid mounting concerns over a wider economic slowdown. The cracks in consumption started to appear in March but were exacerbated about a month ago, when pump prices […]