Toyota is recalling 160,000 Tundras to deactivate the front-seat passenger air bag cut off, a move that helps Toyota avoid having to install the more expensive child safety seat anchoring system named LATCH in the trucks. By deactivating the switch, Toyota is making the front seat a no-child zone, relegating little ones to the smaller back seats, where many advocates advise that children in child seats are safer. The automaker is taking the action after NHTSA rejected their petition to waive a federal safety regulation requiring most vehicles built after September 2002 to have the cut-off switch and the LATCH system. The equipment is intended to keep child seats in place during an accident.

Just when you thought the price at the pump was stabilizing, new increases are on the way thanks to rising summer demand and crude oil prices that have soared past $75 a barrel. Prices are already at their highest point of the year, and, according to AAA, will likely continue to go well past $3 a gallon. Of course, what you pay depends on where you live: drivers in California are paying as much – or more – than $3.69 per gallon, while motorists in Liberty, South Carolina are shelling out just $2.55 for a gallon of regular --- according to gaspricewatch.com