Gas Prices
Drive Less, Win Valuable Prizes! (If You're Canadian, Anyway)
Would you drive less if it meant getting the gas you did use for free? We suspect most people would answer yes if they could, and that's the premise behind the Shuttle Challenge, running in Toronto until May 3. The Shuttle Challenge (via Autoblog Green) asks registered users to track their baseline...
Small Car Sales Soar As Gas Prices Rise
It happens every time gas prices spike, and it's happening again: Small-car sales are soaring. In fact, the total of 2.1 million compact and subcompact cars sold over the... October 11, 2012 by John Voelcker 2
Saudi Arabia Uses Your Gas Dollars To Fund...Solar Energy
Renewable energy, especially solar, is making inroads into the U.S. power grid, but it's a very slow process. And especially in the wake of the Solyndra collapse, it's one... October 8, 2012 by John Voelcker 8
California Gas Prices Set To Soar Beyond 2008 High Of $4.61
Brace yourself, Californians. Gas prices are going up. Again. With the Golden State already paying some of the highest gas prices in the nation, California drivers will find... October 5, 2012 by John Voelcker 8
Point Of View: Gas Taxes Are Better Than Fuel Economy Rules--Discuss
With the announcement of final rules for corporate average fuel efficiency of 54.5 mpg by 2025, the NHTSA and EPA have done two things. The agencies have given carmakers both... September 13, 2012 by John Voelcker 23
Gas Prices: Relief Is Just Around The Corner. Well, Maybe.
Earlier this year, it looked as if the price of gasoline might cross the $5-a-gallon mark in the U.S. (In some places, it went well beyond that.) Analysts were screaming to... September 12, 2012 by Richard Read 17
Gas Prices Hit Labor Day Peak Yesterday. What Did You Pay?
Did you make a road-trip this weekend? Did you have to buy gas? If the answer is yes, then the chances are you found yourself paying the highest price for gas since May, and... September 4, 2012 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 12
Gas Prices And Average MPG Of New Cars Move Together
As we’ve seen in the past, demand for hybrid cars like the 2012 Toyota Prius rises as gas prices increase, but until now, we didn’t know how closely gas prices... August 14, 2012 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 6
![Gasoline prices in California, August 2012 [photo: Brenda Priddy]](http://static.hgmsites.net/images/cache/gasoline-prices-in-california-august-2012-photo-brenda-priddy_100398278_151x113.jpg "Will Refinery Fire Cause Gas Prices To Soar In California?")
Will Refinery Fire Cause Gas Prices To Soar In California?
A fire yesterday evening in a refinery critical to providing special California gasoline blends may boost gas prices in the state substantially. The blaze, first observed... August 7, 2012 by John Voelcker 6
Gas Prices Are Down, But Demand? Turns Out That's Down Too
Conventional wisdom says that when gas prices rise, demand falls--and vice versa. Except that's not what's happening right now, as TheCarConnection noted a few days ago... June 26, 2012 by John Voelcker 3
Will Lower Summer Gas Prices Boost Car Travel For Vacations?
The numbers came in this morning, and gas prices took a sharp drop, with the national average now at just $3.50 per gallon. And they're expected to stay relatively flat... June 19, 2012 by John Voelcker 1
New Car Gas Mileage Falls In May, Lower Gas Prices To Blame
Carmakers may continue to make their cars more fuel efficient year-on-year, but with those models selling in proportionally small numbers, actual gas mileage is climbing at a... June 12, 2012 by Antony Ingram
Electric Cars Equal $1/Gallon Gas For Life + $1,200 Cash A Year
Car buyers are notoriously fond of focusing only on the purchase price of new vehicles, without much thinking about the total cost of ownership. For electric cars that may... May 24, 2012 by John Voelcker 39
How Much Will You Have To Pay For Higher MPG?
The improving fuel efficiency of modern cars is set to be a double-edged sword for car buyers, at least as far as reducing gas bills is concerned. With gas mileage rising all... May 9, 2012 by Antony Ingram 5
Dept Of Unforeseen Effects: High Gas Prices Boost Car Sales
With gas prices high, you'd expect people to buckle down and hang onto their existing cars rather than spending the money to buy new ones, right? Errrrrrr, actually not... May 4, 2012 by John Voelcker
Gas Prices Falling Now, But Will They Stay Low?
Any reader who's not driving a battery-electric car (and there are relatively few of you) may have noticed that gas prices have stopped rising, recently. They're even falling... April 25, 2012 by John Voelcker 6
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