April 24, 2012

Gas Prices Still Slamming Small Business

Michelle Hirsch, Fiscal Times


AP

Like most Americans, Susan Zappa says $4-a-gallon gas is weighing heavily on her finances. Aside from the extra money she shells out just to make trips to the grocery store in her hometown of Springfield, Illinois. . .

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