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Gas prices on the way up for summer

Broadcast: Midday, 04/12/2006, 11:06 a.m.

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Gas prices are headed up. Analysts say we'll be paying upwards of $3 a gallon at the pump before Memorial Day. Will people start looking to electric cars, reaching for the ethanol and springing for the latest hybrids to save money?

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  • Ken Keller: Director of the Charles Denny Center for Science, Technology and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute.
  • David Morris: Vice president of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
  • Bruce Jones: Professor at the Center for Automotive Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

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