Paying $4 per gallon at the gas station is painful, and analyst Patrick DeHaan has some bad news: Get used to it. "People have this expectation that they will be paying $1 or $2 per gallon again," said Mr. DeHaan, a senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com.

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THE tale is intriguing: a Jewish engineer and journalist, whose designs and published work in the 1930s laid out the basics for the Volkswagen Beetle championed by Hitler, was arrested, chased from Germany and nearly airbrushed out of history.

THE New Beetle is dead. Long live the all-new Beetle, as Volkswagen calls the successor, squeezing together the adjectives just as it has squashed down the roof.

M ORE than 100 Saabs, from the streamlined 1947 prototype known as the Ursaab to a 2010 9-5 sedan, are to be taken from their home at the company's museum in Trollhattan, Sweden, and sold to the highest bidder.