15 June 2008
News and Comments - 06/15/08
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: What's News .
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Cameron Says:
15 June 2008 at 9:12 am.
Wish I lived right next to Mexico right now (in some ways).
San Diego drivers appreciate Mexico’s cheap gas
SAN DIEGO - If there’s pain at the pump in the U.S., Mexico may just have a remedy. A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in San Diego retails for an average price of $4.61 a gallon. A few miles south, in Tijuana, it’s about $2.54 — even less if you pay in pesos.
More and more people appear to be taking advantage of the lower price.
“I used to buy exclusively in the U.S. before gas started really going up,” said Patrick Garcia, a drama teacher at an elementary school in San Diego who lives in Tijuana. “Since then, I’ve been buying all my gas in Tijuana.”
The lower prices mean a U.S. motorist could save almost $54 filling up a two-year-old Ford F150 pickup with a 26-gallon fuel tank in Mexico.
The differential in diesel is even greater, selling at $5.04 a gallon in San Diego County and $2.20 in Tijuana.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080615/ap_on_re_us/mexican_gas_2;_ylt=AsX9OMqPIgLRdfKRdaZBIMME1vAI
Cameron Says:
15 June 2008 at 10:37 am.
Lieberman irks Democrats by criticizing Obama
By ANDREW MIGA, Associated Press Writer 32 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Joe Lieberman is fast becoming the Democrats’ public enemy No. 1.
The four-term Connecticut senator, who came tantalizingly close to being Al Gore’s vice president in 2000, not only has been campaigning for his pal, presumed Republican nominee John McCain, now he’s publicly criticizing the Democrats’ standard-bearer, Barack Obama. Lieberman has strayed before, most notably switching from Democrat to independent in 2006 to hold onto his Senate seat after a Democratic primary loss.
But the latest betrayal has upset Democrats, who often answer in clipped but polite tones when asked about Lieberman. The reason: The independent still caucuses with the Democrats on most issues except the Iraq war, and he holds their slim political majority in his hands.
“There’s a commonly held hope that he’s not going to be transformed into an attack dog for Republicans,” said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., an Obama supporter.
Lieberman has wasted no time in questioning Obama’s positions on Iran and Israel, two topics on which Lieberman and McCain agree. Just one day after Obama clinched his party’s nomination, Lieberman joined Republicans on a McCain campaign teleconference call assailing Obama following his foreign policy address to a leading Jewish group.
Lieberman accused Obama of blaming U.S. policies for “essentially sort of strengthening” Iran.
“If Israel is in danger today, it’s not because of American foreign policy, which has been strongly supportive of Israel in every way,” he said. “It is not because of what we have done in Iraq. It is because Iran is a fanatical terrorist, expansionist state.”
Later that day, during a budget vote in the Senate, Obama led Lieberman to a corner of the Senate floor for a pointed private conversation. Without elaborating, Obama told reporters the chat was about politics. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had a similar private conversation with Lieberman.
For his part, Lieberman said he assured Obama he would avoid personal attacks.
Matt Says:
15 June 2008 at 1:28 pm.
Gas prices hit all-time high
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Gasoline prices hit yet another record Sunday, with more than half the nation’s states paying more than $4 per gallon on average, according to a daily survey from motorist group AAA.
The national average price for regular unleaded gasoline climbed slightly to $4.077 a gallon, according to AAA’s Web site.
The average topped $4 for the first time last week after crude oil prices surged to a trading record above $139 per barrel. The price has swung back and forth in a $10 range since then.
Gas is most expensive in California, according to the survey, averaging $4.597, followed by Alaska at $4.436.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/15/news/economy/gas/index.htm?postversion=2008061508
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