The Florida Lottery recently announced its Summer Cash game offering a supply of fuel for those persons with the winning tickets.
Some forty lifetime gas prizes will be awarded over the next two months. Meanwhile, four hundred people have an opportunity to win gas for one year. The lucky winners will be given prepaid gas cards worth one hundred dollars a piece.
Lifetime winners will receive 26 cards every year.
This gas gamble has people who have never before purchased lottery tickets, buying them now, what with the price of gas.
As Sharon Devore puts it, I never play the lottery, but once I realized that gas was up for grabs, “I would be willing to buy a ticket once a week now in order to get gas for a lifetime”, she said.
According to another motorist, Michael Henry, “I want to play and see if I could win it. It would save me a lot of money in the long run.”
The odds of winning depend on how many people buy tickets. Some sources estimate that sales for Florida’s Lottery will be down by 43 million dollars in 2008.
Drawings will take place on Wednesdays, starting on July 9th.
