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Back on gas prices. no matter where you live, you've seen them go up. carol costello here with today's "talk back" question, you know, i mean, you and i both were lamenting over the fact that it's out of control. >> it is. a lot of people feel it's out of control and there's a lot of fingers being pointed in different directions because, you know, here we go again. politicians blaming other politicians for high gas prices instead of doing something about it, everybody is pointing fingers. in the meantime, you are paying more for gas, again. an average of $3.79 a gallon. on facebook exgovernor ...

Margarita instead of juice. applebee's said it is also retraining its staff on, quote, beverage pouring policy. a jury found a massachusetts mom guilty of attempted murder after withholding cancer medication from her autistic son. kris lebrie said she claims she thought the meds would make her son sicker. she faces a maximum of 20 years behind bars. and these twins will have to make due with $65 million. these are the harvard school twins, tyler and cameron, who claim mark zuckerberg stole their idea and then tried to back out of the settlement saying they were misled about facebook's real...

And now in libya, rebel forces apparently are not ready to give up their fight against moammar gadhafi just yet. their leaders actually rejected a cease-fire proposal yesterday. the plan was turned down because they said it does not call for gadhafi to give up power. the longtime libyan leader had reportedly accepted that same peace plan on sunday. and the ongoing tension in oil-producing countries like libya is one of the factors contributing to those sky-high gas prices these days. the average price for a gallon in the u.s. now stands at $3.79. that's up 11 cents in the last week, and it's...

Bit until it passes. >> that means less activities, nothing, discuss go to work, come home. >> there you go. among the cities with the highest prices, san francisco, chicago, new york. tucson has some of the lowest prices and nicole lappen is here with what's moving your money. okay, nicole, gas prices jumped another 2 cents overnight. 3.79 a gallon. do we have a real sense of how much people are cutting back? >> anecdotally, we heard it in the tape, we know people are cutting back as the price of gas is just soaring and they're driving less but now we have facts. 70% of the major gas stations...

High gas prices. >> $4.19 a gallon, that's ridiculous. it's absolutely absurd. >> i have to drive and don't pay mileage. so it's really sticking me. >> they get the bailouts and the breaks. >> it's l.a. so it's worse than most places. >> reporter: the national average price for regular gasoline is $3.79. that's up 93 cents since last year. why are oil prices shooting upward now? the fighting in libya is one contributing factor. fears has markets on edge. and the economists say factoring in speculation and increase in demand from countries like china. higher gas prices hit consumers where it hu...