New Mexico Offering Gas Cards For Lottery Gambling Losers

The New Mexico lottery has developed a plan for helping people deal with the rising gas costs in the United States. They have combined lottery gambling with a chance to win free gas.

The New Mexico Lottery has began a promotion in which gamblers can possibly benefit from having losing scratch off tickets. The plan is to enter losing tickets into a drawing, where the winning ticket picked will win a free gas card.

The gas card prizes will be valued at $100 each, and 100 of them will be available. All gamblers will have to do to win is to take their losing scratch off tickets, and enter them into the drawing. It will be held July 1st.

Various state lotteries have been trying to raise revenue from the lottery system. The addition of casino gambling in many states around the country has slowed gambling on the lottery.

The economy is another factor that is working against state lotteries making as much revenue money as they are used to. Different promotional schemes are being used by different lotteries.

In Massachusetts, the state lottery came out with a Red Sox scratch off ticket that was unveiled at Boston's first home game of the year. Only a certain amount of tickets were printed, and they sold out nearly immediately.

The drawing for the New Mexico free gas promotion will take place at the lottery's headquarters in Albuquerque.

May 30, 2008
Posted By Tom Jones
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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