to $113.93 a barrel. and gasoline jumped almost 2.5 cents a gallon overnight. the national average is now $3.91. bret: on the road to recovery tonight. getting a leaner and meaner getting leaner and meaner to save jobs and money. correspondent james rosen tells us about a 21st century approach to decades-old practice. reporter: century after henry ford developed the assembly line to manufacturer model-ts, japanese car maker, toyota, pioneered the newest evolution of the concept. manufacturerring brings the worker the autoproject, designers, sales and market people to one shared space. it keeps inventory to minimum and delivers the process as close as possible to point of sale. herman miller that makes furniture learned lean from toyota. they had discovered that by
both jumpers died. the latest fatal collision taking place before a memorial jump honoring the victims of the previous crash. new jersey, a gas attendant risking his life to catch a thieve. the suspect drove off without paying. the worker dragged holding on to the car. the witnesses say the same thief hit before. they took two cases of water and took off. new york, i was stupid. this to be illegal. a gas station giving one man a surprise. robert is filling up his tank when the price jumped. it went to 3.91 before my eyes . so robert went to see the manager the receipt priveding the proof.
to a woman who game from marysville, they didn t know if they d have enough for her husband to get to work. gas prices are too high, how can we afford it. and none at all. and you know, got to deal with it. and in new york, long island, a guy was filling up the tank when the pump stopped and started again at a higher price. i said, you can t do this, this has gone past illegal, 3.85 to boom, 3.91 before my eyes and he promised me a free fillup of gas and we ll see how that happens. lawmakers say the stations could be cited for deceptive trade practices and the owner of the station could be slapped with $2500. on to politics now and president obama going off script at a fundraiser on
rocket barrages and air strikes in a relentless effort to keep rebels from advancing toward the capital city. president obama s top security team meets today at the white house to find ways to pressure gadhafi to step down or end the fighting. well, all of that unrest in libya has sent gas prices here in the u.s. sky high. in fact, the average price for a gallon of gas has climbed every single day for the last three weeks. some stations, however, are charging much more than others. matt gutman reports from orlando, florida. reporter: nationwide gas prices spiked 39 cents the past month. california remains the nation s most expensive state where gas tops $3.91 a gallon. the cheapest, wyoming, $3.20. where s the nation s priciest gas? we found it here in orlando. sun coast energy, most expensive gas station in the united states. pulling up. let s see how much it costs to fill.
higher than a month ago. and compared to a year ago, well, those were the good old days. gas was 70 cents cheaper. i have to spend, like, $65 to fill up a full tank, of course, i m going to be frustrated. all right. now, that driver from los angeles is getting particularly hit hard. check out the heat map from gasbuddy.com. you can see as we zoom in, areas in red like california are paying the most, the lowest in green, as you can see in the northwest up here. a new survey from autotrader.com most car shoppers 53% say theying more likely to consider a fuel-efficient car due to the rising gas prices. let s go to the most expensive state in the country, as we were talking about earlier, california, where they are paying $3.91 on average. nbc s miguel almaguer is watching that for us in san francisco. okay, so what will happen is we ll be looking at the gas prices that, of course, are coming up in california, it s been so difficult as the entire