The price of full service high octane gas reaches $4.049 dollars per gallon Thursday, April 20, 2006, at a gas station in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Oil prices held steady near record highs Thursday after weekly data showed a drop in U.S. gasoline stocks, raising worries that refiners don't have an adequate inventory cushion ahead of the peak summer driving season.

On the brighter side , hippies who held onto their 1960's VW Bugs and Buses are seeing the values SKYROCKET as SUV owners run toward the classics that get 50-60 mpg...