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Five ways Americans are coping with $4 a gallon gas prices

While Americans are paying an average of $3.51 per gallon to fill up their gas tanks, the average is far higher 鈥 $3.90 鈥 in California. Here are five portraits of how Californians are coping with $4 a gallon gas prices.

4. The grateful company man

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A customer fill his car with gasoline Tuesday at a station in Oakland, Calif.

Ted Rohrbach is filling his electric company鈥檚 truck for $4.21 premium, and counting his blessings that the firm pays for his 100-mile daily commute from Long Beach to San Bernardino.

鈥淚 don鈥檛 know how they can afford this, I鈥檓 just glad it鈥檚 not me,鈥 he says.

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