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What Should the Price of Fuel Be at the Pump?
This is Tim Whitney’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit – your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily [...]
Buying Gas with a Credit Card Could Cost More
Many credit card companies, such as Visa, charge gas stations a fee every time you use your credit card at the pump. Many of these stations are passing that charge along to you in the form of higher-than-advertised gas prices. Let’s say the price per gallon of gas is $3.85 when you pay inside with [...]
Is the Speed Limit a Gas Saver?
Sen. John Warner asked Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to look into what speed limit would provide optimum gasoline efficiency given current technology. He said he wants to know if the administration might support efforts in Congress to require a lower speed limit. Warner cited studies that showed the 55 mph speed limit saved 167,000 barrels [...]
Gas Tax: Have Americans been Spoiled?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Many of us remember when gas was 99 cents per gallon. Now, we are bemoaning the fact that most of the time, we have a hard time finding it for less than $4.00 per gallon. Do you realize, though, that the [...]
Are you Worried about the Gas Crisis?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed On June 9th, the National average for gas prices per gallon hit the $4.00 mark. This all-time high came as no surprise to most of us. Does this concern you? Are you worried about the gas crisis? Bloggers on Lockergnome have [...]
What’s Cheaper than a Gallon of Gas?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I was sitting here chatting with the people in my chat room when Ponzi called me with a pretty cool discovery that I thought you all would find interesting. She was calling me from BestBuy, as she was walking past the [...]
Alternative Fuel and Hybrid Modifications: Water4Gas?
Stephen of Ohio (that’s what he calls himself) sent me this message earlier today, no doubt in relation to my recent posts on the high cost of gas here in the United States: Now we all know that Ethanol is not going to take the market for fuel, hydrogen is somewhat promising, but how about [...]
What Are You Paying for Gas?
How high do gas prices have to get before you change your own driving habits, if you haven’t already? I thought, for certain, that there would be less vehicles on the road after gas hit $4 a gallon here in the United States (at least, in the Seattle area). Seems to me that even when [...]
Gas Prices vs. Summer Vacation
I drive a car. You [probably] drive an automobile as well. Most Americans drive at least one type of motor vehicle – for whatever reason. It’s next to impossible to live without some form of independent transportation in our country – not completely impossible, but largely inconvenient (truth). While I’m quite happy with the comfort [...]
