Little impact on gas fees
The Ethereum Foundation, the organization behind the Ethereum blockchain, has asserted the Merge will have little impact on gas fees. This means that gas fees will remain relatively high, depending on the demand and supply of computation power.
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Source (https://cointelegraph.com/news/lower-costs-higher-speeds-after-ethereum-s-merge-don-t-count-on-it)