Ever wonder why gas prices seem to rocket up when oil prices rise, sometimes rising a few cents in a day, but then take forever to come back down? A theory called Rockets and Feathers explains why...
Article | Updated Aug 1, 2008 | Views: 45 | Comments: 0 Tags: gas prices
Americans drove about 20 billion fewer miles during the first four months of 2008, down 2.1 percent from a year earlier. Who may gain from this? Progressive. Fewer miles driven is translating to...
There are rumors that GM is rushing to finish the production version of its Chevy Volt and is planning to unveil a showroom-ready model of the plug-in hybrid in September.
GM is racing Toyota to...
It can cost $500 or more in gas to commute to work. Those with long and now expensive commutes are starting to rethink where they live and buy their homes. Another impact of high gas prices.
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Even though this is just one station in West Virginia, it shows the impact of high credit card surcharges have on merchants.
The credit card companies take about 2% to 3% of the purchases, and...
An in-depth article looking how commodity speculators are driving up prices and affecting ordinary people from around the world.
There's a claim that most of the price increases are due to the...
It's a game that some say started during the gas-rationing days of World War II and came back during the oil embargo of the 1970s. It's catching on again as fuel prices spiral out of sight, and...
The gasoline-price-induced collapse of the sport-utility-vehicle market presents a quandary for consumers. With gas at $4 a gallon, SUVs no longer make affordable commuter vehicles. But at the same...
A passenger car unseated a pickup as the best-selling U.S. vehicle in monthly sales in the May industry sales figures out Tuesday.
It's the first month that's happened since December 1992, Ford...
Car buyers finally believe $4 gas is here to stay. The Big Three is scrambling to respond to demand for better fuel efficiency...and it will cost them.
Hope the Big Three will keep up their...
Sure you want to save gas, but there's a lot of bad advice on how to do it. Some of it makes no difference, and some of it can wind up costing you.
One of them that surprised me was #2. Change...
Relatively low taxes have kept pump prices far below most other developed nations, which some say is precisely why the current runup is so painful.
There is some evidence Europe's high gas taxes...
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