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High gasoline prices changing lawn-mowing habits

Newsvine - business  Fri, 06/20/2008 - 05:46

When Eric King moved from his apartment in Pittsburgh to a single-family home with a lawn, he bought a manual lawn mower instead of the usual gas-powered kind.

He figures he's putting money in his pocket and saving trips to the filling station.


 

With gas hitting record highs, drivers feeling squeezed

Newsvine - business  Mon, 04/21/2008 - 23:38

Cabbies here complain their take-home pay is thinner than it used to be. Trucking companies across the country are making drivers slow down to conserve fuel.

Filling station owners plead that really, really, the skyrocketing prices aren't their fault.