In times of rising fuel prices, Americans are shifting from gas guzzlers to smaller cars. How small? The Takeaway went to Scooter Bottega in Brooklyn, N.Y., to investigate.

“The Takeaway with John Hockenberry & Adaora Udoji” is a fresh new morning drive-time news program. Produced by WNYC/New York and Public Radio International in partnership with the BBC World Service, the “New York Times and WGBH/Boston, “The Takeaway” provides a breadth and depth of world, national and regional news coverage that is unprecedented in public media.

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Jul

New Fuel Price Hike Worries Indian Farmers

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Indian farmers are feeling the economic pinch more than ever. It comes after fuel prices went up by 10 percent, making it harder than ever for the farmers to make ends meet.

The Indian government has just increased its fuel prices by 10 percent, the first hike of the year and the steepest ever.

This has not gone well with the consumers and especially with the farmers. The lack of monsoon rains are forcing them to irrigate their fields with tubewells that use up many liters of diesel.

[Rajendra, Farmer]:
The tubewell consumes around 15 to 20 liters of diesel, but now after the hike in prices of fuel, how will we arrange for so much money to run the tubewell? It will be very difficult for us, we will face heavy losses.”

The rise in transportation costs will also make food items prices go up.

[Bheema Chavan, Vegetable Vendor]:
“With the increase in fuel prices, the prices of vegetables will also go up.”

But the government has not increased the price of cooking gas and kerosene to protect the poor and middle-class.

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Jul

1994 Buick Roadmaster Wagon LT1 – last day High Gas Prices

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Roadmaster Buick Estate Wagon Woody LT1 Corvette Motor Gas Prices Toronto Orillia Integra Type R Honda Civic Ricer V8

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Jul

Old gas pumps not engineered for $4 prices, station slashes costs

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Sets of fuel pumps around the country aren’t engineered for high fuel prices. 49 News Reporter Annette Lawless finds one station that cuts the price of fuel to get people at the pump.