by KYW's Paul Kurtz

Cruising - a teenage rite of passage is rapidly becoming a thing of the past due to the high cost of gasoline.

It's a warm, sultry Thursday night and a portion of a shopping center in Richboro, Bucks County in Pa. is filled with parked cars belonging to teenagers who ordinarily would be out cruising the streets. But not this summer. Eighteen-year-old Greg Borden says times have changed:

We usually come here to make plans and we used to all take our separate cars to where we were going, but now that gas is so high we just take one car and we usually try to not go to far either.

The price of gas has forced Larry Gatti to make another hard choice:

"I have to work a lot now more than I usually did just to compensate for that cost. It sucks but, oh well, you got to adjust to it."

It's the same story all across America. Parking lots, shopping malls, and movie theaters are now the favorite gathering spots for teens.