May 5, 2006

Eye On The Road, Day Five

Sharyn Alfonsi Hits The Road To Chart Pain At The Pump

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    Only On The Web: Sharyn Alfonsi is on the last leg of the "Eye On The Road" series. She and her crew are headed to Boston to talk with an expert about fuel economy and performance.

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    Only On The Web: Sharyn Alfonsi and her crew are headed to Washington, D.C., to ask commuters how expensive gas would need to be for them to give up their cars.

  • Video Minor Leagues, Major Gas Pains

    Sharyn Alfonsi and the Eye on the Road crew travel to North Carolina to investigate how soaring gas prices are affecting the local minor-league baseball team and its fans.

    • Sharyn Alfonsi throws out the first pitch at a Carolina Mudcats game in Zebulon, N.C.

      Sharyn Alfonsi throws out the first pitch at a Carolina Mudcats game in Zebulon, N.C.  (Nikolaus Johnson)

    • CBS News correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi

      CBS News correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi  (CBS)

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(CBS)  CBS News correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi's Web-exclusive road diary on how Americans are coping with the high price of gas.



On the road to Boston

Tonight, were finally going to count up our receipts and find out how much the gas for this trip cost us.

That got me to thinking about some other numbers you might find interesting.

  • 11 — States we covered

  • 5 — Days on the road

  • 85 — Speed a viewer claims she clocked us at in Fayetteville, N.C.

  • 3 — Photographers

  • 130 — Average dollars it costs to fill up the Satellite truck

  • 4 — Average hours we slept each night

  • 0 — Number of hotels we stopped at that we'd ever want to return to

  • 1 — Baseball given to me by the Carolina Mudcats

  • 150 — Feet photographer Mark LaGanga climbed to get a shot from on top of a silo

  • 37 — Cans of Red Bull LaGanga drank this week

  • 14 — Number of Cokes I drank this week

    I'm off to get No. 15. See you tonight!

    Click here to read Day Four of Sharyn's road log.




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