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WBZ television, also known as CBS-4 in Boston, Massachusetts, had a piece on tonight's six o'clock news about vacation spots that are less than one tank of gasoline away. And it was all photographed in Meredith with video shots of Meredith Bay, the Inn at Church Point, the Inn at Bay Point, and the picturesque, quasi-antiquated Meredith Mobil gas station.

The Concord Trailways bus no longer uses the Irving gas station, formerly Wallace's, as a bus stop. For years, that was the Meredith bus stop on the route from Berlin to Boston. Not sure where the Trailways bus stops in Meredith now.

Gasoline will have to sell for something like $6.50/gallon before people would leave their cars and take a train from Boston to Lincoln, NH. Then, what do you do in Lincoln, NH, when you get there without a car?

Most American's cars have an automatic transmission because people do not want a manual transmission with a clutch pedal. In Europe, 80% of cars have manuals because they use less gas, while in America something like 90% have automatics which need a bigger engine. If people do not want a manual transmission, then how you gonna get them to take the train?

Watched a Ford f-350 run up a $105. gas fill-up at the Center Harbor, Irving gas station, this morning..... $105....ouch....that's a lot of torque for a regular driver!