How are drivers riding out the gas crisis?

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  NPR.

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  If you drive a gas-powered car, for weeks you've seen prices at the pump going one way, up.

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  And up and up.

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  As of our recording, U.S. Gas prices are now averaging $4.14 a gallon, the highest in three years.

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  And that's just an average.

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  It can run higher in places like Los Angeles, where Carter Victorio was filling up.

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  It's almost $6, $5.79, something like that.

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  Expensive.

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  Or somewhat cheaper than the national average, like in the southern United States.

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  Gas was $3.69 a gallon at the Kroger Gas Station in Savannah,

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  Georgia, where retiree Joseph Spellman was filling up his 2007 Toyota sedan.

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  Have you noticed you've had to spend more to fill up?

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  Not really, because I don't drive.

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  It used to cost me $5 to drive for a week.

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  Now it costs me $10, so it don't bother me.

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  I wish I could be as unbothered as Joseph.

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Waylon Wong, and I'm joined by producer Julia Ritchie.

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  Good to be back.

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