gas prices

While public transportation was the primary way Americans got around in the 1940s, the boom in car ownership eventually meant fewer people on subways and buses. But thanks to high gas prices and an improving economy, that seems to be changing.

Turmoil in the Middle East is nothing new. Gas prices going up is nothing new. What is new is the possibility that we could be looking at prices at the pump lurking in the neighborhood of $5 a gallon by the summer. And that’s painful.

With the average price of gas approaching four dollars a gallon, the question becomes whether Americans are going to start to seriously changing their current driving habits and vacation plans, in light of this hike.

We already know gas prices are climbing precipitously high, but you don’t usually see them change right before your very eyes. For one news reporter, though, that’s exactly what happened.

Remember the summer of 2008 when the highest gas prices on record occurred and the price for a gallon of fuel hit $4.11?

I get angry with the so-called experts who pop up on the cable news shows and on radio claiming to know so much about so much.  Gas prices are still high.  $3.23/gallon is NOT a bargain; it’s fifty cents cheaper than a few weeks ago...

I can’t remember where I first heard the term ‘staycation’, but I caught myself using that word the other day.  I nearly slapped myself.  Where did that come from?  I’d run into a friend of mine who remarried a while back.  He and the new wife did not honeymoon...

It's been a part of American culture for as long as many of us can remember: summer vacation.  Schools out, mom and dad and kids hit the road and go somewhere, anywhere for a week or two.  Lots of people will do so this year in spite of the gas prices...