The greenback is as synonymous with the United States as apple pie and Chevrolet. ...more

October 24, 2009

Crude oil prices have fallen to new lows for this year. So you'd think gas prices would sink right along with them. ...more

February 15, 2009

As I sit here typing this little epistle my TV tells me that the price of crude oil on the market is below $40 per barrel. This tells me that the price at the local pumps should be dropping, right? I was right, the price has dropped at some pumps in Avon Park and maybe elsewhere in the county but not in good old Sebring. ...more

January 11, 2009

You can find gas for less than $2 a gallon. Less than four months after the average cost for a gallon of regular unleaded gas was more than $4 in Florida, motorists just north of the Pasco County line are buying gas for half that price. ...more

November 14, 2008

As the price of crude oil moves closer to $60 per barrel, retail costs at the pump drop further toward the $2 mark. ...more

November 10, 2008

Carnival Cruise Lines and Holland America Line, which sail out of the Port of Tampa, will raise ticket prices by an undisclosed amount but eliminate fuel surcharges for 2010 cruises, parent company Carnival Corp. said. ...more

October 15, 2008

Carnival Cruise Lines, which sails out of the Port of Tampa and four other Florida seaports, said it will raise ticket prices by an undisclosed amount but eliminate fuel surcharges for 2010 cruises. ...more

October 14, 2008

Highlands County is about to begin making asphalt and history. The first government owned and operated asphalt plant in Florida should start production next week at the Highlands County Landfill, fueled mainly by methane gas that is now burned off. ...more

October 10, 2008

It will take a while before the refineries along the Gulf coasts of Texas and Louisiana are operating at full strength, but retail gasoline prices could still tick downward this week. ...more

September 29, 2008

Even though Hurricane Ike entered the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday on a path toward the Texas coast and its vast refinery complex, gasoline prices in Florida and elsewhere continued to drop. ...more

September 10, 2008