since i live in cook county, i always try to fill up when i come to dupage county because it's cheaper. and also i do have a sam's club card. i go down to the one in countryside because usually i get 5 cents off per gallon. hey, quincy. >> reporter: moore's also seeing some of her regular wards less frequently. she says their owners are traveling less, and she wonders if high gas prices are the reason. >> they're not taking these little weekend trips like they used to. they're waiting for the big trip in june, or july, or august when the kids are out. >> reporter: moore is hopeful gasoline will drop at or below $4. but even if it does, she thinks she'll still have to watch her budget. >> i'm still going to have to be very diligent about what i spend and look at my clients. >> reporter: diane eastabrook, "nightly business report," lagrange park, illinois. >> susie: it was a sea of red on wall street. stocks sold off at the open as prices for oil and other commodities tumbled. let's take a look in tonight's "market focus." not surprisingly, energy stocks led the way down. shares of exxon

i don't want to bring those in but you were at an airport in dupage county. >> we are owned by dupage county, and we are often placed under a state statute. so, our rules and regulations were established by state statute, and we are on the tax roll, the property tax rolls and the was the big rub in the past that was draining the county property tax levies without producing much meaningful benefits. >> we are going to talk about the economic growth and what airports will deutsch and we will pick up with your story. lynn, i want to go with you and you are the airport authority. what kind of entity is the washington airport? >> of the washington airport is a municipal corporation. we have a board of directors appointed by virginia, maryland, district of columbia and the president but we are independent of all of those entities. we are organized very much like the portability of new york and new jersey with a multistate jurisdiction. we were privatized basically by the federal government back in 1987 now we are getting ready to go on our 25th year. over that 25 years we've done about $7 b