Notebook: Gas

[0:10]..." hasn't at all shivering crane for the ice cream industry especially. The ice cream truck. Dairy prices are climbing up over one and a half percent from may to June of this year and gas prices as you know are soaring up 10% over the same period. And that is hitting mr. softy in the good humor man where it hurts in the gas tank. Distributors have had to raise prices in some drivers have cut back on their roots. I hope this doesn't signal the beginning -- the end of that beloved icon of suburbia. The ice cream truck with its jangling bells and incessant music is part of our culture. It has survived tougher times let's hope it can late "...

[0:02]..." getting away in the summer but Michelle from Framingham is curious like gas prices are so much higher on the -- Well -- Smith jumped the discarded check out the price difference and the reasons for it. CEO of the we'll tycoons I don't know if so you think your gas prices are high tried taking a ride across the bridge onto Cape Cod. The land of sticker shock where gas is still at or above four bucks a gallon the question is why. There it's right Iran and I really can't say it's just it's a matter of I think those retailers are struggling to you know make their profit. In that time period when the most people -- down there it does get worse as she heads south let's start in hand over a gallon of regular 349. In nearby Pembroke 369. Just before the sector more bridge it's still 369. But then in -- 399. And in Dennis. Four dollars and nine cents that's a distance of 55 miles and a jump of sixty cents in the cost of a gallon of gas if you get it down to 37 million -- getting a break in. That just just not right but all is not lost even here on the -- Right across the street in -- of the Cumberland farms gas is 387. That's 22 cents less a gallon than the other station only a few yards away. But -- gas station owners say they're getting so too. One told me off camera that her wholesale price for gas is twenty to thirty cents higher than -- Pembroke for instance drivers aren't too sympathetic. Is it fair do you think that it -- are now we're not at all I believe that's the price you pay for Lebanon okay. At four bucks a gallon here's hoping the weather is good on the -- Jim Smith WABC news. -- want to know what you are curious about "...

[0:08]..." of fear of setting might be the good old days pretty soon oil prices have risen to just above a 101 dollars a barrel in some experts -- gas prices. Could get four dollars a gallon by the spring. Sir I didn't live for us at that gas station right in fairly you know he usually -- the consumer a couple of weeks after that. "...

[0:42]..." in the past a Harvard economist told the New York Times they gas prices could mean the difference between the recession and no recession. The US Energy Department says more Americans are already cutting back their carpooling using mass transit in even walking. Car dealership seeing customers -- an SUVs for compact cars people who used to go to the movies once a week are now going once a month. And gas companies like golf they say people are buying nearly two gallons less than they did last year got predicting gas prices is difficult because. Other speculation and this isn't. The first time that we've had the specter of four dollars a gallon hang "...