“It’s killing our pocketbook. You can’t budget for it because you don’t know what it’s going to be. You just have to put in less. Instead of a half-tank, you put in a quarter-tank.” — Victor Parrott of Irvine, Calif., commenting after he paid $4.69 a gallon for gas last Thursday. The gas cost 74 cents a gallon more than it did a week before.

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