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Higher gas prices leave many workers running on empty
05-11-2007 · EurekAlert!Few have been unaffected by the rapidly increasing price of gas, which has inched its way up toward $4 a gallon in some parts of the United States. And consumers aren’t feeling those effects just in their wallets, a Florida State University professor in Tallahassee, Fla., has found.
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