Saving Money & Summer Driving

Saving Money & Summer Driving plus Food Forethought. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report. Today is Memorial Day. When I was a kid we called it Decoration Day and spent the morning at the cemetery placing flags on soldier's graves. Not sure if we all remember that since it has today become the official start of the summer and of course that means driving to the lake or on vacation. According to Neil Gampson with the Energy Information Administration it will cost you more to do your summer driving this year. GAMPSON: We're saying that gasoline prices will average about $2.94 per gallon for regular which is up a lot from last year - up from $2.44 per gallon. Speaking of driving, the Renewable Fuels Association released a report Thursday showing America's drivers are saving up to 105-dollars a year because lower-priced ethanol is cutting the price of ethanol-blended gas. Thanks to ethanol - RFA says gas prices are nearly 10-cents cheaper than they would otherwise be - saving the nearly 28-million people who will be on the road this Memorial Day weekend a lot of money. Now with today's Food Forethought, here's Lacy Gray. There is nothing quite like spending a summer evening at your favorite ballpark watching one of America's favorite pastimes, baseball. And the experience isn't quite complete without that foot long hot dog with lots of mustard and relish. Except now if the Physician Committee for Responsible Medicine has its way, oh you know, they're the group that doesn't actually have any physicians, you'll have to get your hot dog with a warning label similar to those found on packets of cigarettes; "eating this product is associated with increased risk of cancer." I guess it's a sign of the times and one we will have to get used to as more and more over the top activists groups fight for center stage. This group has actually been told that top Harvard researchers have studied the meat causes cancer theory and has concluded that there is no strong evidence supporting a link between eating meat and colorectal cancer. But then to acknowledge such facts wouldn't be as much fun. They're fun comes from using baseless scare tactics and fear mongering. Hey, would someone pass the mustard and hold the hotdog hooey. Thanks Lacy. That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.