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Subscriptions closing soon! Subscribe now, while you still can.

What do you mean, "Subscriptions are closing soon"? We will soon stop accepting subscriptions to our e-mail Gas Predictor Newsletters and instead offer an online version. Some highlights:

• All e-mail subscriptions current as of the time we stop taking e-mail subscriptions will be honored, and subscribers will be able to continue renewing their e-mail subscription as long as they wish.
• All e-mail subscribers with current subscriptions as of the time we stop taking e-mail subscriptions will be eligible for free access to the online version if they wish.
• The total number of subscribers, e-mail plus online, will still be limiited to 2,000 per locale in which we offer gas price predictions.
• We will continue posting "yesterday's predictions" on free-to-access pages as we do now, but we will publish tomorrow's gas prices on pages which will be available only to paying subscribers.
• The online subscriber-only pages will be suitable for access by mobile devices or conventional computers.
• We plan to implement the cut-over from e-mail to online subscriptions "real soon now," but we still do not have a definite date. It will probably be within January, 2012.

Why subscribe? It's just FUN to get one over on the oil compamies! Smirk at rising gas prices, knowing that your tank is filled with yesterday's cheaper gas.

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• What's In the Gas Predictor?
• Publication Schedule?
• Cancellation/Refund Policy?
• How do I renew my subscription?
• What if I want to stop receiving newsletters temporarily?
• 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 with no advertising):

1. Date the prediction was published.
2. Locality covered by this prediction.
3. Change in nearby gasoline futures when markets closed today.
4. Change in second-lowest retail gasoline prices today.
5. "Pressure" in our forecasting algorithm driving changes in gas prices today.
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.
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, 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. It also includes advance announcements of upcoming new publications, such as new local editions, and advance announcements of subscription pricing and policies.

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Publication Schedule:

• The Gas Predictor emails are published between about 5:30 PM and 6:30 PM Eastern Time every business day. They may be published later if the required market closing data for gasoline futures in various regions of the U.S. are published late. This happens more often with Gulf Coast futures than with other energy futures. On these occassions, the Gas Predictor for those locales is published about 15 to 30 minutes after the data are available.
• Typically, Gas Predictor emails for locales not directly affected by Gulf Coast gasoline futures are published at 5:30 PM Eastern Time. This includes all cities in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, Mountain Time Zone and Pacific Time Zone.
• Typically, Gas Predictor emails for locales which are directly affected by Gulf Coast gasoline futures are published at 6:00 PM Eastern Time. This includes all cities in the Southeast, Mississippi Valley, and Gulf Coast.
• "Business Days" are all days when the New York Mercantile Exchange is open for trading futures in unleaded gasoline.

We may change this publication schedule as conditions dictate.

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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 with no referral bonus. If you subscribe when we are offering a discount, your refund would be based on the discount rate. If we paid a referral bonus to another subscriber who referred you, we will deduct the amount of that bonus from the refund we pay you. (You and your friend who referred you can fight over it.)

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 $16.67 ($17.75 * 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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What if I want to stop receiving newsletters temporarily?

If you are going on vacation or want to stop receiving the Gas Predictor Newsletter temporarily without canceling it altogether, you can suspend your subscription for up to one year. Suspended subscriptions can be later restarted with no loss of subscribed time. For example, if you have a one-year subscription that started on May 1 and expires the following April 30, but on December 31 you suspend it, the subscription clock stops ticking. You still have four months worth of subscription coming to you. If you then restart your subscription on April 15, your new expiration date will be August 15.

Simply send us an email at subscribe@gaspredictor.com with "SUSPEND" in the subject line. Let us know what date you want the suspension to begin and, if possible, the date you wish to restart your subscription. Otherwise, we will automatically restart your subscription one year after the date that you suspended your subscription.

Suspended subscriptions will count toward the total number of subscribers in that locale.

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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 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 750 (* see Note below) people with access to our predictions, so their actions will not affect retail prices. This number includes both active and suspended subscriptions.

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.

* Note: We have recently reduced the number of subscribers in each locality, so at present, some localities have more than 750 subscribers. In these cases, no new subscriptions will be issued, although current subscribers will be permitted to renew their subscriptions as long as they wish. As subscribers allow their subscriptions to lapse, eventually the number of subscribers will decrease to 750 or fewer. In any locale where we are now accepting subscribers, you may be assured that we will sell no more than 750 subscriptions.

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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 you can place yourself on a waiting list. Send an e-mail to subscribe@gaspredictor.com, and specify the local Gas Predictor edition 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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Notes:

1. Be sure you enter the e-mail address where you want to receive your Gas Predictor.
2. You do not need a PayPal account to subscribe. PayPal's secure payment system will accept your credit card, bank account, or your PayPal account.
3. Subscriptions are processed by our parent organization, MoreBrainsThanMoney.com, and that is the name that will appear on your credit card statement.
4. The table here is not updated in real time. There may be fewer subscriptions remaining than what you see here. The PayPal payment screen will let you know if any subscription is sold out.
5. By subscribing to our Gas Predictor, you are authorizing us to send you e-mail (but not spam), as described in our Privacy Policy.
6. BY SUBSCRIBING TO OUR GAS PREDICTOR, YOU AGREE NOT TO DISCLOSE THE PREDICTIONS TO ANYONE IN ANY MANNER UNTIL AFTER WE HAVE PUBLISHED THEM ON OUR WEB SITE.
7. BY SUBSCRIBING TO OUR GAS PREDICTOR, YOU AGREE NOT TO DISCLOSE THE ANNOUNCEMENTS OF FORTHCOMING NEW LOCAL EDITIONS OR OTHER PUBLICATIONS TO ANYONE IN ANY MANNER UNTIL AFTER WE HAVE ANNOUNCED THEM ON OUR WEB SITE.

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Region	Subscriptions Remaining	1-Year Subscription	3-Month Subscription
Predictions for Atlanta, GA	374	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for Boston, MA	387	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for Chicago, IL	321	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for Denver, CO	436	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for Houston, TX	303	$17.75	$6.89
Region	Subscriptions Remaining	1-Year Subscription	3-Month Subscription
Predictions for Kansas City, MO	484	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for Las Vegas, NV	459	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for Long Island, NY	452	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for Los Angeles, CA	460	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for Nashua, NH	368	$17.75	$6.89
Region	Subscriptions Remaining	1-Year Subscription	3-Month Subscription
Predictions for New York, NY	430	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for Oakland, CA	413	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for Orlando, FL	484	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for Phoenix, AZ	510	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for Portland, OR	481	$17.75	$6.89
Region	Subscriptions Remaining	1-Year Subscription	3-Month Subscription
Predictions for Raleigh, NC	335	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for San Diego, CA	380	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for Seattle, WA	374	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for St. Louis, MO	374	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for Tacoma, WA	503	$17.75	$6.89
Predictions for Tampa, FL	515	$17.75	$6.89

Subscriptions for more local areas coming soon!

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