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What Are the Top Gas-Guzzling Vehicles on the Road?

Mike Adams — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:00:55 +0000

As the days of buying cheap gasoline pass into the American history books, more and more of us are driving fuel-efficient vehicles as a means to combat those steadily rising gas prices.

That is, unless you happen to have enough money to not give three screaming squirts about how much gas prices go up

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Gas Prices Set to Spike for Labor Day – Will It Be a Record High for the Holiday?

John McKay — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:05:11 +0000

Again, we are reminded of the importance of energy independence.

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Gas Prices Fell Across WA This Week by .08 Cents – Did They Really?

John McKay — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:00:51 +0000

According to GasBuddy.com, prices dropped about 8 cents last week in Washington, but because it was 1 or 2 cents a day, you might not have noticed.

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Washington Refinery Running – Will Gas Prices Now Dip?

John McKay — Wed, 30 May 2012 17:30:30 +0000

For weeks we've been told part of the reason for skyrocketing NW gas prices is due to the shutdown of the refinery at Cherry Point in Whatcom County.

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Gas Prices Jumping By .35 Cents This Weekend? Maybe-Maybe Not.

John McKay — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:30:30 +0000

According to analysts, gas prices could skyrocket as much as .35 per gallon over Memorial Weekend.

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Man Arrested After Facebook Photo Shows Him Siphoning Gas – From A Police Car!

John McKay — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:00:43 +0000

OK, how dumb ARE you? A Kentucky man is in police custody after being arrested for allegedly siphoning gas from a police car.

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Huge Blunder Drops Price at Gas Station to One Dollar Per Gallon — Dollars and Sense

Danny Gallagher — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:30:56 +0000

A lot of people are hurting these days because of the slow turn of the global economy. Few places are making them feel the pain of painfully slow growth more than the gas pump.

But that doesn’t mean relief can’t unexpectedly happen.

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How High Are Mid Columbia Gas Prices? The Latest

John McKay — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:00:01 +0000

We know what we're shelling out when we fill up at the pump. But how does it compare this week with the rest of the country? And WA State?

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In Place of Keystone XL, President Obama Now Backing 'Half Pipeline'

John McKay — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:00:29 +0000

Just weeks after trying to kill the Keystone XL pipeline that would have supplied millions of barrels of oil to the U.S., Obama has thrown his support behind a "half a pipeline" in the U.S.

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Gas Prices In WA Rise 46 Cents In One Month

John McKay — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:30:54 +0000

Hearing about $6 a gallon gas in parts of California, we think we're lucky. But really, we're not.

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No Joke–Free GAS Coming With Newstalk 870 Starting April 1st.

John McKay — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:00:26 +0000

We wouldn't kid about something THIS big!

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15 Clever Ways to Save Money on Gas

Kathy Landin — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:00:46 +0000

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.

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Politicians Want Speculators To Help Curb Gas Prices

John McKay — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:32:31 +0000

We don't normally always agree with D.C. politicians--but in this case, they make sense.

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Theives Get Clever To Steal Gas

John McKay — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:00:07 +0000

With yet another spike in gas prices expected, theives in Tampa came up with an ingenious way to try to steal fuel

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Why Are Washington Gas Prices Rising?

John McKay — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:49:40 +0000

Why are gas prices spiking earlier than usual in WA, and places across the country?

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Just How High Will Gas Prices Go in 2012? – Dollars and Sense

Shauna Wright — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:00:16 +0000

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

Hate to break this to yah, but a warm winter and tensions in the Middle East have some analysts predicting current prices will top $4 by this spring — and could even climb as high as $6.50.

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Fuel Economy Stickers-12 Miles Per Gallon

John McKay — Wed, 25 May 2011 19:53:20 +0000

Leave it to the Feds to unintentionally make us roll with laughter, or recoil with anger.

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Station Accidentally Sells Gas for Slightly More Than a Buck a Gallon

The Brad — Tue, 24 May 2011 18:16:58 +0000

Who said gas prices are out of control?

The Torrance Daily Breeze reports a service station in Wilmington, California sold premium gas for the rock-bottom-it-must-be-1992 price of $1.10 a gallon for a four-hour period last Sunday. The gas was supposed to be sold for $4.29 a gallon.

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Iranian President Running OPEC?

John McKay — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:45:10 +0000

With Iranian President Ahmedinajehad taking over his nation's Oil Bureau, he now is in a position to have considerable influence over OPEC, the Middle Eastern coalition of oil producing nations.

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Tax Cars By The Mile? Obama Floats New Plan

John McKay — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:10:41 +0000

The White House is quickly backpedaling away from a report obtained by Transportation Weekly that indicates the Feds are considering a plan to tax cars by the miles they are driven.

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