This Just In: Gas & Country Featured on NBC Nightly News (No, Not Our Blog…Our Premise)

The second lead story on tonight’s NBC Nightly News, filed by Mike Taibbi, was a survey of the ways in which the rising cost of gas is changing life in America.  In other words, everything we’re blogging about.
We might just be onto something here….
Update: they just closed out the broadcast with a second story about [...]

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NYT: Elderly Face Severe Impact From Rising Cost of Gas (and Cops Are Returning to Horseback)

Following the lead of USA Today’s July 2nd coverage on the effects of soaring gas prices on fixed income seniors (as well a cover story about how fuel costs are affecting rural towns), The New York Times puts up almost 1600 words on the subject.  The news is pretty damn near heartbreaking.
Basically, agencies that provide [...]

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Is the Rising Cost of Gas a De Facto Traffic Congestion Plan?

This past Thursday, an article in The New York Times posed an interesting question: is the rising cost of gas doing for traffic what Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan was supposed to do: reducing the number of cars on the city’s streets and increasing the use of mass transit.
Here’s the takeaway from Sam Schwartz, [...]

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Welcome to the Staycation Era

There was one of those complimentary copies of USA Today hanging from Gas & Country’s hotel room on Wednesday morning and while it’s not our usual fare, into the backpack it went.  If nothing else, we’ve always enjoyed that page where they find something–anything–newsworthy (and bite size) from each of the 50 states.  But there [...]

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