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Line." >> with these record highs you can mind my business any time. that's all i can say. what's the one thing we need to know about our money? >> have you heard about the justin bieber prepaid debit card? i don't like it. here's the biebs promoting the card on youtube. to make a budget properly. prepaid cards are almost universally a bad idea. why? because of the fees. this one will cost a flat flee of $3.95 a month. up to $2.95 every time you add funds. you don't use the card for 30 days there's a $3 fee. look at those fees very carefully. lose the card $7.95. get something out of an atm, $...

Month. don't celebrate just yet. these plummeting prices may not be a sign of an economic recovery. >> i just found out where she got her money. i can't say it. >> miss fisher believes that gas prices are going to come down some more. >> there you go. >> good transition. >> let me give you the good news before we get any further. the good news is really terrific. gas prices are absolutely tumbling. $3.39 a gallon as you just saw for the national average. if you go down to south carolina, the average for regular in that state is $2.98. >> you say this is good news. when this president took offi...

The e.i.a. has slashed their forecast for average gas prices during the summer driving period from april to september. instead of the $3.95 gallon per estimate, it expects prices to average $3.79 during the period. as it happens, the new forecast is exactly the same price the eia said motorists were paying on money. it also said it cut the sum forecast because crude oil prices have fallen and they continue to decline today. >> let me ask you about this sign, another sign of the auto industry coming back. ford is going to boost production? >> reporter: yeah, rising car and truck sales have prom...

Trying to do in the summer blends and all that kind of thing. and the oil refineries shutting down -- how much does that factor into the price of gas as well? >> summer is always a difficult time for gas. some of the reports that i've seen say the prices might have already peaked. so that's really promising. >> good. there was talk it was going to go through summer up till labor day? >> i saw wild expectations of $5 a gallon or even more. they're starting to back off those a little bit which is great. we're thinking maybe $3.95 a gallon on average for the rest of the summer. >> is that going t...

>> i think newt gingrich did suggest that he had this power. >> newt gingrich will not be the nominee of the republican party. >> he won't, much to my chagrin. >> this is a madeup drama. every time gas gets close to $4, we start to argue whose fault is it? regulation, speculateors? this is almost always the markets and things going on. right now, iran. some kind of military confrontation, that affects the price of oil. all other factors, we're talking about pennies on the price of gas. so when gas -- when gas prices come back down, we won't hear about the epa, about energy policy, we'll all fo...