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June 2, 2006

Conn. poll finds gas prices affect all Americans

Fifty-six percent of American voters have cut back significantly on how much they drive as a result of rising gas prices, according to the results of a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

And 50 percent of American voters say they have cut back on household spending because of gas prices, according to the Connecticut university pollsters, who surveyed 1,534 registered voters across the country from May 23 to May 30.

“In varying degrees, depending on whether you're rich or poor, a Democrat or a Republican, a man or a woman, black or white, Americans are feeling the pain of rising gas prices, with most of us cutting back on our driving and half of us pinching pennies to fill the tank,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

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