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Released: August 10, 2011
Strapped Americans try to stretch car dollars
Source: Mike Chalmers, USA Today
For the past four months, Margaret McCormick's 2001 Toyota Celica has been sitting in the parking lot of her condo complex, with one flat tire and a broken transmission. "To fix it, I need $1,000, but I just don't have it," says McCormick, of New Castle, Del., who has been out of work for two years. McCormick is among a growing number of Americans struggling to keep their cars on the road, as job losses and gas at just under $4 a gallon take huge bites out of their wallets, a new AAA survey shows.Read Full Article: Strapped Americans try to stretch car dollars
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