Unhinged at the Pump

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How much do people imagine a gallon of gasoline costs these days? A small fortune, to judge by a Rasmussen Research survey fielded prior to the Memorial Day weekend. The poll found 61 percent of adults saying they didn’t plan to travel over the weekend, and 39 percent of these cited gas prices as their “main reason” for staying put. Let’s do some arithmetic here. Say your car gets 20 miles per gallon, and you’d thought of driving 400 miles on a Memorial Day trip—i.e.,

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