Wow! The news is full of stories about rising gas and food prices. For those of us who pay attention to our expenses it's not a big surprise. We've known for awhile that's been happening. In fact, what surprises us (at least me) is that so many people were unaware of what was happening.

Take gas for instance. World demand is up (primarily due to growth in China and India). Supply is basically unchanged. Economics 101 will tell you that prices will rise. On one hand we can argue about how to increase energy supplies or whether we can conserve enough to offset increased demand by other countries. But, that's not really our mission here.

What we can do here is provide ideas that you can put to work this week to reduce those gas and grocery bills. So with that in mind I invite you to pour a tall glass of your favorite cool beverage (I favor sweet tea or lemonade), sit back and enjoy this week's issue. I hope that you find it saves you some money!