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Consumer Reports' Mike Monticello joins News 12 to discuss how gas prices are at record levels and are predicted to go even higher.

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Let's get another look at the forecast on this Frigid Tuesday night, Addison Dey still need to dress warm for tomorrow. That's the question. Yeah, absolutely. An one more day or two, maybe the two. Now, you, now you're putting two in there just a little lingering cold in towards your Thursday that we're gonna be talking about in just a moment. But thankfully though, one of the good things that we're gonna be discussing is that we do have milder days ahead. Getting close to average high of about 47 degrees and morning low of 32. The bad news. Yeah, we still have to deal with that cold air. But once that milder air moves on in rain, chances will be coming our way as well as we head in towards the weekend ahead. So as we move forward across the area, here's what we're talking about in white plains for those morning lows. Yeah, very frigid out there the next two mornings. But then by Friday morning and after that, we're above the freezing point. So you won't have to wear multiple layers to go out and about just maybe one way. Keep that umbrella by your side. So over the past several hours, we've been watching those temperatures cool on down in towards the twenties and the thirties and we've watched a few flurries fly around from time to time, just more or less. Just a nice looking flurry passing by, not seeing it add up on the ground, but going towards the overnight hours, mostly clear and brisk temperatures feeling in the mid teens when you see those numbers starting to go down overnight, even though the winds will be backing on down, that chill will still be in the air. So later on tonight, 10 o'clock, we got 28 degrees and Bush feeling 10 degrees cooler than that 29 in White Plains feeling about 18 in towards tomorrow morning. The coldest time of the day is around 6 to 7 o'clock or so. We have temperatures feeling pretty much around 20 degrees if not colder than that. By the afternoon hours, those numbers are moving on up, but still most locations are still feeling below the freezing point of 32 degrees. And I showed you earlier on that we're going to see those temperatures on the rise as the system brings us a chance for rain. It's gonna be arriving during the tail end of the afternoon hours. And towards that evening ride home should be wrapping on up throughout the overnight hours heading towards your Saturday. I think Saturday for the most part will be dry, but then from Saturday night into Sunday, we watch another system head our way. So we're not looking at this weekend to be a wash up, but we do have a few instances that we do have some dreariness coming through. Thankfully though, with temperatures moving upward, heading in towards the weekend ahead. We're not talking about snow showers. Nope, it's just gonna be some cold rain coming down and then moving.

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"No end in sight." Consumer Reports expert expects prices to go even higher

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well, gas prices breaking records across the country and unfortunately those prices are expected to just go up from there joining us now to talk more about when we could get some relief is mike, Monticello of Yonkers based Consumer reports mike, thanks so much for being with us this morning. Thanks for having me. Alright. We do know that the national average this morning up more than 10 cents since just last night. When do you think we're going to see a break? Well, unfortunately at this point it's just hard to say, I mean it's it's possible it might continue to go up so it's pretty disappointing but for now there's there's no end in sight at the moment. Alright. Really pennies do count these days. So how does the way that we drive make a difference to our bottom line when we are counting every single cent? Yeah, so there's actually quite a few things you can do that you might not think about that can help you save, you know, save some money by getting better fuel economy. And one of the first things that you can do is just obey speed limits. You know, In other words, slow down. It's not only is it safer for you and safer for the other motorists and pedestrians and cyclists, but you can save a fair amount of fuel economy that way we did some tests if you slow down from 65 miles an hour to 55 MPH. We found that you can save six MPG in a midsize sedan and eight MPG in a small suv. That's a lot of money. And so that really makes a big difference. What about when it comes to whether you should get all the way to empty or you should keep your tank at half full. What's your recommendation for drivers out there? So on the one hand, you might think, well, it's better for fuel economy if you drive with less fuel in the car because there's less weight in the car. But the reality is right now, with the way fuel prices are, the way they're so volatile when you get down close to half a tank, you really want to think about uh, filling back up again soon. That gives you some leeway. You know, you don't want to end up with almost empty and then now you're stuck with maybe paying higher gas prices at a gas station that, you know, is higher than another one. Or if the price is, you know, maybe they were better three days ago, right? And you should have filled up when you were at half a tank. So now we're kind of saying when you get close to half a half a tank, think about filling back up. All right, mike Monticello from Yonkers based Consumer Reports, we appreciate all that welcome advice. We all know, we can need to save a little money these days. We appreciate you doing all of this for us and being with us too

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