We spent two weeks in London last Summer. The pound was almost 2$ CND.
So coming to the US for the winter is still a bargain. Just not as great as it was during the oil price bubble that so many had started to count on, an even expected.
The bubble was created by speculators talking about China and India's great need for oil, and that it will only continue to grow. Now the speculators are talking about a glut of oil. Sometimes a person just needs to tune out all the chatter, and use some common sense.
If you watch this stuff always in such a short time frame, you'll drive yourself nuts.