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I know its Halloween, but have some of you lost your minds?  Are you intentionally scaring your children about the doom of our economy? 

I read an article by Liz Pulliam Weston where she makes it clear some of us are doing just that.  It made me pause and ask myself if I’m in the same boat.  I know this; I will pay a lot better attention to it now. 

Take a look and tell me what you think.  Are you doing this? 

Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin — Sure, gas prices have come down lately.  But to 34.9 cents a gallon?

That’s what Kelly Joosten and dozens of other motorists paid at a Citgo station Monday.  The sign advertised $3.43 for a gallon of premium fuel, but the pump cost read $0.349 a gallon.

“That was amazing,” said Joosten, who normally spends about $100 to fill up her 1998 Ford Expedition.

Joosten proudly showed off her receipt for 25.36 gallons at $8.85.  She said she saw other motorists filling gas cans, too, at the discounted price.

Station owner JP Raval says the attendant on duty couldn’t figure out why the station was suddenly so busy.

Raval estimated 30 to 40 customers fueled up at the incorrect price — between 200 and 300 gallons worth — for about 90 minutes.

“People kept coming, so fast,” Raval said. “Everything was crowded; it was like a fairground.”

Local General Motors’ employees learned officially this morning that production of full-size sport utility vehicles will end in Janesville on Dec. 23.

The work stoppage will affect about 1,150 hourly and 130 salaried employees at GM, plus hundreds more at local companies that supply the auto plant.

GM announced in June that it would end SUV production in Janesville by the end of 2010 at the latest, but plummeting sales for the big trucks prompted the automaker to accelerate the closing of the Janesville plant.