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Picking Splinters: With Fuel Crisis Persisting, Time to Ban NASCAR?

2008-05-29By

This past weekend, in an effort to avert my eyes from continuously climbing numbers at the gas pump my eyes came to rest upon a series of NASCAR stickers affixed to a 1977 Ford Mustang fueling up in front of me. Trying not to think about the $60 bill I just ran up for 13 gallons of gas, I started to ponder exactly what kind of impact NASCAR is having on our current fuel woes.

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