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March doesn’t just mean the beginning of spring and the peak of college basketball madness. It is also the month when oil refineries begin transitioning from winter gasoline production to the...
The auto industry bounced back mightily last year. Americans purchased 15.5 million new vehicles in 2023, a 12.4% increase over the previous year. One million of those vehicles were electric,...
Few things stick in the news headlines quite as well as the fluctuations in gasoline prices. In our car-obsessed culture, gasoline is literally the lifeblood of our civilization. Small changes,...
The price of gasoline and oil is an important component in the energy sector of the government’s consumer price index, which measures inflation. Gas prices were the largest contributor to inflation...
Efforts by the Federal Reserve Bank to tame inflation appear to be working. After climbing to a 41-year high of 9.1% in June of 2022, the rate on the closely watched consumer price index  dropped to...
Americans drive an average of 13,476 miles per year, according to the Federal Highway Administration. That is the equivalent of traveling coast to coast twice in one year. Motorists in some states...