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Prices. >> like oil has been charging us a lot of money for gas, overpricing us. we are not able to compete with the competition. we have been losing a lot of business. >> i stopped at around 6 when i noticed it. $10 a gallon. we are complaining, $3.50 a gallon. >> drivers not in a buying mood. like oil insists the practices are fair and in compliance with the law. certainly got all of our attention. menus changing at mcdonald's nationwide next week. you will see the difference won't taste it. calorie counts on every mcdonald's item starting monday. golden arches will make changes before fed...

>> we have a couple. the kids give him some and the next thing you know, 20, gone. >> maybe if the dog knew how many calories he was eating he wouldn't eat so many nuggets is what you would think. when it comes to people that doesn't seem to be true. this is a really interesting study they did in seattle. in the city of seattle, you have to have nutritional labeling on certain menus but in the burbs, you don't know. so they compared how people eat. they found the label you had to have in seattle it didn't make a difference. people still ordered high calorie foods. we're talking about high calo...

Eat that big meal or eat that caloric meal or watch it later on the in the day. at least they are armed with some information. >> maybe they found out it was 906 calories and still ate it and watched themselves later in the day. >> and having lettuce for dinner. >> in starbucks in the city they found the labeling made a difference and people did choose lower calorie options. this study is a little different from other studies and other studies have found the labeling works. >> interesting stuff there. our advice to them, don't do it at taco time next time. elizabeth, good to see you and thank ...

Like this, isn't it a good place not to do it at a place called taco time? if you're going there you're going to get a taco no matter what it says. do we think how much this study, given where the study was done? >> t.j., i think you make an excellent point. you may have an masters degree in epidemiology. yes, that is exactly right. maybe people who go to these kind of restaurants don't really care. you go there because you're dying for that extra big burrito. maybe that's it. maybe what it is is the way that this particular restaurant did the labeling, it didn't kind of jump out in your face....

Slash their budgets, raising taxes seems to be it. you can see why they're seeing green on this one. soda is big business. $18.7 billion in sales over the past year. soda tax may push consumers to lower calorie options. it may help states fill their budget gaps, but if i want my sugar fix, is this somewhere the government should be vold? i guess my bigger question is, if you're going to take money out of my bad eating and drinking habits, are we narrowing the field too much by targeting sodas when there are many ways i can get fat and unhealthy? >> i think it's appropriate in some cases, cigar...