According to this piece, people are bringing their gold to pawnshops to get enough money to fill their gas tanks before payday.   From the article:

   “We’ve got people from Williamsburg and different places that have never been in a pawn shop, and they are a little bit nervous coming in until they talk to my husband,” said Epstein.

    Mercury Pawn is also seeing more people come in because of gas prices.

Last sentence of the article mentions payday lending as another business that’s seeing a pickup in customers.    The Payday Pundit keeps seeing this assertion in the media, but there’s really been no evidence of it.