The pumps there show self-service unleaded gas at $2.05 a gallon.

But there’s more. A sign beside it informs customers that the pumps are old and don’t have the latest computer equipment to compute high prices. It says the price will be actually double what they see.

The old pumps don’t go above $3.99 a gallon. So at $4.10 a gallon, Fleet management had to do something.

But surprisingly, high gas prices curbed holiday traffic this year only 1.3 percent.

In 2007, 1,046,700 traveled by automobile in North and South Carolina. This year, AAA Carolinas estimated that 1,143,500 Carolinians would take a trip.

Even with higher prices at the pumps, one out of every four Carolinians was expected to travel from home more than 1,000 miles roundtrip.

James Graydon, who filled up at Fleet on Thursday took his family on a long trip.

He traveled from his home in Clover, South Carolina to Wendell to see a cousin. On the return trip, he planned to stop in Winston-Salem to see an aunt.

Graydon said the high gas prices affected him somewhat.

“I’ve found it for $3.77 a gallon in some places,” he said. “Up here it is $4 a gallon so that puts a struggle on what we do.”

But Graydon also said his car gets good gas mileage and that minimizes the impact.

“It’s just so high, you don’t have the extra money,” said Johnny Holder of Zebulon who planned to stay home and have a family cookout.

Holder, a self-employed truck driver, said the cost of diesel fuel at $4.80 to $5 a gallon eats away at his paycheck.

Holder travels the East Coast on Interstate 95.

“I remember when it was 28 cents a gallon back in 1966 to 1968,” he said.

But Doug Pope of Zebulon was undeterred.

“I just got back from New Mexico,” he said, while pumping his car with gas at the Zebulon BP on Gannon Avenue.

Pope is a volunteer for Scenic Railroads and travels the country to refurbish train equipment.

“It’s more than it was last year, but is $100 difference mean you’re not going to go on a vacation?” he said.

Michael Bolton of Zebulon said it was.

Bolton said he wasn’t going anywhere. He said gas prices and humidity kept him in town.

North Carolina has the 35th highest gas prices in the country, while South Carolina has the second cheapest gas.

In a year, gas has gone up 27.5 percent. According to AAA Carolinas, Raleigh’s self-serve unleaded gas prices last July 4 were $2.910 per gallon compared to $4.012 this year.

Griffin Todd Jr., pumping gas at the Zebulon B.P., expected out-of-town visitors in spite of high prices at the pump.

About 100 members of the Todd, Merritt, Griffin and Carpenter family were expected to come to a family reunion off Mack Todd Road.

“I don’t think the gas prices are stopping them from coming,” he said.