More Articles for fuel prices
The Family Gasoline Bill: Scarcity trumps efficiency
(Photo: Diyan Nenov / Flickr)
Americans spend a relatively small part of their income on gasoline. But it’s unlikely to get any smaller.
It was just a bit less than 4 percent of income before taxes in 2012, the highest in ... Read More...
Young Americans are driving less
Though traffic congestion has been on the rise since January, vehicle miles driven in America are nowhere near their pre-recession levels.
In fact, according to a Frontier Group report, Americans drove about 6 percent fewer miles per year in 2011 than ... Read More...
Kirk Landers, Editor Emeritus
The Reasonable Voices of Business
By Kirk Landers
General Motors chairman and CEO Dan Akerson caused a brief outbreak of raised eyebrows in the business community last month when he told the Detroit News that he would rather see the U.S. government ... Read More...
Diesel, gas continue to rise
The Department of Energy reported Monday that diesel prices rose 4.4 cents to a $3.976 per gallon national average. Gasoline also increased, rising to $3.684 cents per gallon, an 8.8-cent increase over the previous week.
Compared with figures from the same ... Read More...
