How Rising Gas Prices Will Affect the 15 Biggest U.S. Companies

Thankfully, the largest stocks are largely insulated

Mar 9, 2012, 5:30 am EDT | By Jeff Reeves, Editor of InvestorPlace.com

#11: AT&T

AT&T (NYSE:T) is worth more than $180 billion. The telecom giant has some limited exposure to gasoline prices, as it sends crews out to maintain its wireless network and landline communications. But few of these folks are salaried AT&T workers, and instead are contractors. That means AT&T incurs the expense but has some cushion to pass on higher fuel costs to secondary companies actually doing the driving.