While oil prices continue to soar to record highs, the price of gas has pinched pocketbooks and sparked conversations surrounding everything from family travel and food prices to alternative fuels and political policies. The topic has landed in debates between presidential candidates who either favor or oppose a fuel tax holiday. In business news, the airline industry is taking a beating as jet fuel costs climb. On the home front, rising gas prices cause families to cancel their Summer vacation plans and begin checking their mailboxes for economic stimulus checks.
The topic of gas prices has yeilded increased placement opportunities as publishers utilize blogs from the BlogBurst network to provide additional coverage to readers. IBS has launched a “Gas Prices” section, featuring content from BlogBurst network members, across the majority of their local television station websites:
Learn more about the topic by reading posts authored by some of your fellow BlogBurst bloggers who have been featured on IBS’ Gas Price news section:
Business
Fuel-enomics: 10 Tips for Small Businesses as Prices Continue to Rise - The goWholesale Blog
Dairy Farmers to Receive Help With Fuel Costs - Food and Fuel America.com
Gas and Diesel Prices Rocket Upwards…Again! - Food and Fuel America.com
Politics
Savings from suspending state gas taxes - Don’t Mess With Taxes
President Bush Troubled By High Gas Prices - Hutch Report
Hillary Spurns Economist on Gas Tax - Donklephant
Leading Democrats Side With Obama in Gas Tax Dispute - WSJ Washington Wire
Consumers
Drivers slow down as gas prices rise - Auto Insider Blog
American Life Altered by Rising Gas Prices - LiveScience.com Blogs
What’s Fueling Higher Food Costs? - Debtors Relief
Save Money on Gas Tips from Consumer Reports - The Sun’s Financial Diary
Tax Help - Tired of Those High Gas Prices? - “The Baby Boomer Generation”
Get An Oil Change and Save on Gas - Basil & Spice - Living Green!
Ease Gas Pump Pains by Replacing Old Habits with New Ones - Ask Patty
Thanks for featuring my blogsite! Get An Oil Change And Save On Gas was written by guest blogger Doug Fine, author of Farewell My Subaru. Doug is an adventure journalist who has covered international events and is a contributor to NPR and U.S. News and World Report. (He converted his diesel truck to vegetable oil.)
Other featured guest bloggers:
Diane MacEachern, author of The Big Green Purse wrote Cheap Gas Tips
Sadie Kneidel, author of Going Green, wrote The Car Addiction
Basil And Spice features expert international authors who write about the Living Green experience–encouraging us all to improve our world a little more.
Kelly Jad’on
This string caught my attention, but still a little surprised there isn’t as many comments as I expected. I’ll keep checking back since this is a hot topic for me personally.