Have you checked out the price of gas lately? I bet you have and nobody is happy about it. The cost of a gallon of regular gas is creeping expensively and disrespectfully close to five dollars a gallon in the DMV. In other parts of the country prices are well over six dollars per gallon. That’s not all. Inflation is at a 40-year-high with no signs of slowing. What’s going on and what can you do to blunt the sting of more money going out than you can afford?