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Select the Local edition you want from the list below, or subscribe to the free National Gas Predictor.

Why subscribe? If we can save you two cents per gallon (which is typical) and you buy twelve gallons of gasoline per week, that's a savings of $12.48 per year. It won't change your life, but isn't it worth a $4.59 subscription?

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• What's In the Gas Predictor?
• What's the Difference between the Free and Paid Versions?
• Publication Schedule?
• Cancellation/Refund Policy?
• How do I renew my subscription?
• Converting Your subscriptions
• Why the limited number of subscriptions?
• What if the edition I want is not available?
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What's In the Gas Predictor?

Click to preview a Sample Gas Predictor Newsletter.

There are three main sections to the newsletter: Prediction, Track Record, and "Subscriber Info."

The Prediction section of the newsletter looks like the main page of this Web site (but paid versions have no advertising):

1. Date the prediction was published.
2. Locality covered by this prediction.
3. Change in nearby gasoline futures when markets closed today. (Average of all gasoline futures in National edition.)
4. Change in second-lowest retail gasoline prices today. (Average of second-lowest prices among the 12 localities in our model in National edition.)
5. "Pressure" in our forecasting algorithm driving changes in gas prices today. (Average "pressure" among the 12 localities in our model in National edition.)
6. Trend of gas prices for tomorrow.
7. Trend of gas prices for the next two or three days.
8. Predicted price range for the next day. (Local editions only.)
9. Assessment of whether you should buy gas today or wait.
10. Date the next prediction will be published.

The Track Record section looks like the Track Record page of this Web site (again, paid versions have no advertising). It provides a review of the previous predictions for the past few weeks. There is a performance score to summarize our accuracy over previous months, but you'll have to visit the Web site if you want the details of previous months' predictions.

The "Subscriber Info" of each Gas Predictor contains information about how to get assistance with your subscription, such as how to change your e-mail address, how to unsubscribe, etc. As we add more local editions, we will include a list here of all local editions that we anticipate having available in the coming weeks.

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What's the Difference between the Free and Paid Versions?

The free National Gas Predictor contains a general, average prediction of tomorrow's gas prices for the 48 contiguous United States as a whole. The paid local Gas Predictors provide predictions for gas prices in a specific city. Necessarily, the local editions are more precise.

The free National Gas Predictor looks like the main page of this Web site. It does not include a prediction for a specific range of prices. It usually includes notes to describe particular regional pressures that are different from the average pressures. (For instance, if the average price of gasoline is going down, but prices are going up along the Gulf Coast, there will be a note describing that.) Therefore the information in the free National Gas Predictor may be less useful to you. Although we have predicted the direction of changes in gas prices successfully for nearly a year now, we can't always tell you if prices in your city are going to move in the same direction as the "average" price.

Subscribers to the free National Gas Predictor get the same advance notice of new local editions as do subscribers to the paid local editions. However, in order to subscribe to a new local edition, you must buy a subscription, while subscribers to the existing paid editions can convert to the new edition free of charge. Whenever we announce a new local edition, there will be a link in the newsletter that you can use to subscribe, because there will be no link on the Web site until we open the new edition up to the public.

Subscriptions to the free National Gas Predictor are available only for three months (13 weeks) at a time. You may renew as many times as you like, but each renewal will last for only 13 weeks.

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Publication Schedule:

• The Gas Predictor is published about half an hour after all required market closing data for gasoline futures in various regions of the U.S. are published. The market data is available some time between 4:30 and 7:00 PM Eastern Time, and the Gas Predictor is published about 15 to 30 minutes later each business day. If market data reports are delayed, as sometimes happens, the Gas Predictor will also be delayed. Note that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange group has recently changed its procedures and schedules for publishing market closing data, and we are not yet sure how stable or reliable the schedule will be.
• "Business Days" are all days when the New York Mercantile Exchange is open for trading futures in unleaded gasoline.

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Cancellation/Refund Policy

You may cancel your subscription any time within the first two weeks for a full refund. After two weeks, refunds will be pro rated as follows:

• Annual subscriptions are pro rated on the basis of 1/50 of the subscription price per week or part of a week. No refunds after 50 weeks.
• Quarterly (13-week) subscriptions are pro rated on the basis of 1/10 of the subscription price per week or part of a week. No refunds after 10 weeks.

The first Gas Predictor you receive after 14 calendar days after you received your first Gas Predictor will constitute using your subscription within that third week.

Note: These examples are based on the regular annual subscription price. If you subscribe when we are offering a discount, your refund would be based on the discount rate. In any case, your refund would be based on the actual subscription rate that you paid.

For instance, suppose you begin a subscription to the Gas Predictor for one year on Tuesday afternoon. You will have up until 12:00 PM on the second Tuesday after that to cancel your subscription for a full refund. After you receive your Gas Predictor on the second Tuesday afternoon, we will deduct 3/50 of your subscription price, and give you a refund of $4.31 ($4.59 * 47/50).

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How do I renew my subscription?

Renewals are not automatic. It's too easy for you to forget that your subscription is going to expire a year after you bought it, and if we go in and take your money without you expecting it, that's too much like stealing. We don't do it. If you want to renew your subscription, you must take action yourself.

We will give you plenty of warning. Three weeks before your subscription is going to expire, we will send you a friendly reminder, and a special link that will allow you to renew. (In case the subscription is no longer available. You can renew, but the link to purchase new subscriptions will not work.) We will send you another reminder one week before your subscription is to expire.

Remember that there is a waiting list. If you choose to let your subscription lapse, someone else might take your place, and you would then be unable to purchase a new subscription.

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Converting Your Subscription

As new local editions become available, existing subscribers will have the first chance to subscribe before we open these subscriptions to the general public.

Subscribers to the free National Edition will be able to purchase the new local edition before it is available on our Web site. There will be a link within the newsletter that you can click to purchase either a three-month or a one-year subscription to the new local edition.

Subscribers to any local edition may, at no charge, convert the remainder of their subscription to the newly available local edition. For example, suppose you live in St. Louis, MO, and you subscribe to the Chicago edition beginning in January, and we announce (to subscribers) that we will begin distributing a St. Louis edition in July. You can request to convert your Chicago Edition subscription to a St. Louis subscription for the remaining six months of your subscription at no additional charge. There will be instructions in the Gas Predictor for doing this.

You may also convert your subscription from any local edition to any other, even apart from newly announced editions. However, this depends on availability. As discussed in the next section, we only issue a small number of subscriptions in each locality. If the edition you want to switch to is already fully subscribed, you can not convert to that edition. In that case, you can request to be added to our waiting list, but existing subscribers do not get preferential treatment on the waiting list. (You had your chance when we first announced the new local edition.)

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Why the limited number of subscriptions?

We do not want the publication of our newsletters to become a factor that affects the retail price of gasoline in any area. If too many people in any one area are making their gasoline purchasing decisions the same way at the same time, there would be local spikes or dips in demand, which would skew the results of our predictions. So, we keep this factor negligible by making sure that very few people in any one area have access to our predictions during the day. In any one locality, there will be no more than 2,000 people with access to our predictions, so their actions will not affect retail prices. We set these limits higher for the National version of the Gas Predictor, because these subscribers are spread out across the entire United States, and there are not enough in any one place to affect price movements.

Yes, everyone in the country has access to our predictions at around 8:30 AM Eastern Time the next day, but by then, demand has generally slowed down enough that visitors to our Web site are not likely to cause a noticeable spike in demand for gasoline.

Specific limits on the number of subscribers are: 2,000 for each Local Edition; 4,000 for the National Edition.

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What if the edition I want is not available?

If all available subscriptions to the edition you want have been taken, whether the national edition or a specific locality's edition, you can place yourself on a waiting list. Send an e-mail to subscribe@gaspredictor.com, and specify the national or local Gas Predictor you would like. We will notify you when a subscription becomes available.

In courtesy to others on the waiting lists, please respond promptly when we notify you of an availability. If you no longer wish to subscribe, or if you do not respond within two business days, we will make the subscription available to the next person on the waiting list.

Subscriptions become available in either of the following ways:

• A new local edition has become available, and existing subscribers convert their subscriptions to the new edition.
• Existing subscribers let their subscriptions lapse.

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Region	Subscriptions Remaining	1-Year Subscription	3-Month Subscription
FREE! National Predictions	1,860	NO LONGER AVAILABLE	Free! Subscribe Here
Predictions for Atlanta, GA	959	$4.59	$1.89
Predictions for Chicago, IL	967	$4.59	$1.89
Predictions for Denver, CO	1,612	$4.59	$1.89
Predictions for Houston, TX	890	$4.59	$1.89
Predictions for Las Vegas, NV	1,909	$4.59	$1.89
Predictions for Long Island, NY	1,219	$4.59	$1.89
Predictions for Nashua, NH	1,041	$4.59	$1.89
Predictions for Oakland, CA	1,184	$4.59	$1.89
Predictions for Raleigh, NC	1,016	$4.59	$1.89
Predictions for St. Louis, MO	1,567	$4.59	$1.89
Predictions for San Diego, CA	1,259	$4.59	$1.89
Predictions for Seattle, WA	1,475	$4.59	$1.89
Predictions for Tampa, FL	1,318	$4.59	$1.89

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