Local auto expert shares fuel-saving tips  Middle East unrest
has driven up local gas prices. (March 8, 2011 / WRDW-TV)   News
12 First at Five / Tuesday, March 8, 2011  AIKEN, S.C.---Gregory
Mallory feels that pain that most Americans feel right now. It's
the pain that comes from rising gas prices. As the prices
continue to climb each day, Mallory feels that his life is
changing too.  "I don't know what we're going to do for the
summer," he told News 12 "Guess we're going to cut out vacations
or something like that."  The fighting in Libya and the unrest
in the Middle East seem to be the culprits, and the results can
be felt by the average American at the fuel pump.  "I think that
our government should do whatever it takes to help ease the
crisis some to help America first, and everything else would
have to come second," said Vernon Summer, owner of United
Automotive & Performance in Aiken. He hopes President Obama will
open up America's oil reserves, but in the meantime, he's
reducing fuel prices through ot