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J.P. Sydnor is seeing more people buy bicycles from Under The Sun recreation store he manages on West Patrick Street. Strong sales and a spike in the number of bicycle repairs and tune-ups, something that has dwindled over the last 15 years, are taking place nationally, the result of high gas...
Drivers seeking relief from rising gas prices might not want to read further. Retail gas prices hit record highs for the ninth day in a row Friday, AAA reported. Feeling the most pain at the pump? Drivers in Alaska and Connecticut. They are paying $4.042 and $4.008 a gallon respectively. But...
REARDAN, Wash. (AP) — Mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials. As many as 8,500 of the nation's 170,000 service stations have old-style meters...
Fuel costs giving us 2nd thoughts about vacation The rising cost of travel is reining in summer vacation plans for many area residents. The travel season starts a week from now with the Memorial Day weekend, which will be the first in a decade when the number of travelers will drop, according to...
London: US crude shot to a record high near $128 on Friday after Goldman Sachs, the most active investment bank in energy markets, raised sharply its forecast for prices. US crude (WTI) hit a peak of $127.82 and was trading at $127.30, up $3.18, by 1513 GMT. Brent was $3.16 higher at $125.79....
Posted on: Saturday, May 17, 2008 Hawaii gas prices not U.S. highest It may be little comfort to their wallets, but Hawai'i drivers might take solace in the fact that the state's record gasoline price isn't among the top five in the nation. The latest data from the AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report...
BHP Billiton announced that it has reached agreement to sell Optimum Colliery (a thermal coal mine within BHP Billiton's South African portfolio), together with 6.5Mtpa of Richards Bay Coal Terminal entitlement to an entity controlled by a Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) consortium, Optimum Coal...
Deliveryman Wayne Wingerter makes a delivery to Straub's in Webster Groves. With diesel above $4 a gallon, Alan Hautly — president of the St. Louis-based company — has had to find ways to reduce fuel use. Unleaded gas averaged $3.68 per gallon late last week in the St. Louis area, up from $3.38 a...
It's a tough time to be a driver competing at short-track speedways, considered by many to be the heart and soul of auto racing. Record fuel prices -- race fuel is about $8 a gallon -- and their ripples are making the sport cost prohibitive to even some of the die-hard competitors.
The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee has approved the Energy and Tax Extenders Act of 2008, a measure that will extend the biodiesel tax incentive through the end of next year and provides a dollar-per-gallon incentive for all biodiesel regardless of feedstock. Passage in the committee gained...
