Gambling for gas.

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This past summer, Florida joined Georgia, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Washington in giving away gasoline as a lottery prize. "Gas has become more precious than cash now," says Bernard Feldman, a customer service supervisor at a supermarket that sells lottery tickets. Florida made the decision after 90 percent of regular lottery players, responding to a poll in which a year's home mortgage payments were among the other choices...