No more searching for gas stations with a working air pump or dealing with broken machines. And many portable compressors come with useful extras like built-in pressure gauges or flashlights.

Yet many gas stations in California still charge customers up to $1.50 to inflate their tires with air, despite a little-known 1999 law that requires them to provide free air and water to ...

Sharon wants to know how gas stations get away with charging people for providing air for their tires. She could just as easily ask why so many California drivers don’t seem to know that ...

Q: I had my tire pressure sensor go off while coming home from work from San Jose on Monday so I stopped by a 76 gas station and its air machine was broken. So then I went to a Valero station ...

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) -- Air is now free in one Nassau County town. The Town of Hempstead has prohibited area gas stations from charging motorists a fee to fill up their tires with air ...