How Do Gas Prices Affect Consumers?

Gasoline prices have been on the rise for the past three years and 2007 seem to be on a track to beat last year as the highest on record. We looked into our data at Compete to see how high gas prices are affecting consumers.

We compared the monthly people count from websites GasBuddy.com and GasPriceWatch.com against the average gas price price for that month. We saw a general correlation between gas prices and GasBuddy.com
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