discretionary income. you are left with so much less in the end how do you save money. hard to do with college prices with hurricane sandy coming through and taxes going up and also gas prices going up. we have a new study out talking about gas prices last year and how much the american household spent on gasoline. shocking numbers. last year turned out to be a real pain in the gas. american households spent a record amount filling up their cars more than $2,900 on average. in the meantime the cost for filling upkeeps going up in 2013 as well. the national average for regular unleaded costs 3.53 cents a gallon. prices jumped $0.18. that jump of that size we haven t seen anything like that in two years. the reason a lot of them higher crude oil prices, the economy switching over to the summer gasoline blends that s more