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Gas Price Fluctuations Across the Country

If you’re planning on doing any traveling this summer, don’t use your local gas price to calculate expenses for your trip. Read the rest of this entry »

Gas Prices and Inflation

Although newspaper headlines continue to proclaim that gas prices are at an all time high with oil trading for $39 a barrel, very few have taken the time to do any comparisons with the rising costs of all of the other items that Americans purchase every day.

If you actually take time to do the comparisons, however, the truth of the matter is that gas prices have actually increased at a much slower rate that the prices of other everyday staples. As a matter of fact, given that each dollar you earn today is only worth about half of what it was worth in 1981 - gas cost much more then than it does today. Read the rest of this entry »

Gas Prices not yet at the Crisis Stage…

According to a recent national poll conducted by Fox News, gas prices in the U.S. have not yet reached the crisis stage for most American consumers.

In fact, despite the recent flood of articles on how to increase gas mileage and conserve fuel, according to the poll conducted by the Opinion Dynamics Corporation, less than half of American families are actually making any type of conservation efforts. Read the rest of this entry »

You know gas is too high when you have to use 2 credit cards at the pump.

If you’ve been filling your gas tank with a credit card at the pump recently, you may have run into the problem of the pump shutting off before you’ve finished filling your tank.

According to a recent AP article, titled “Credit Cards Cut Off Gas Purchases”, the fault lies with the credit card industry.

Although many of us may feel as if we’re quickly becoming the victims of gas rationing, if in fact, you’re willing to go to the trouble of starting another transactions with a second card - you can pump gas til your hearts content or at least until you reach the cap on the second card. Read the rest of this entry »

When Will Gas Prices Be Too Much?

An interesting article appeared in the June 4th issue of Time magazine. Titled “Pain in the Gas,” it compared man’s automobile to his castle and suggested that it’s probably going to be awhile before the American consumer is really affected by the rising cost of gas.

The author actually suggests that “Some experts say you won’t see drivers really get price sensitive until they are routinely paying $100 every time they fill up.”
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