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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (21184)	6/22/2000 2:32:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

That explains the general rise in gas prices, this from US News explains the MidWest: Gas-guzzling Gore Midwesterners can thank Vice President Al Gore for skyrocketing gasoline prices this summer, explains Marianne Lavelle in the latest issue of U.S. News & World Report. "Forget the law of supply and demand. It's the rule of evaporation and environmental regulation that is sending prices at the pump as high as $2 a gallon in Chicago," Miss Lavelle writes. "Refiners complain that new federal clean-fuel rules are difficult to meet because of a unique ethanol-enriched mix of gasoline mandated in most Midwest states. "As a result, gas prices have risen in the nation's heartland at more than twice the national average ? just in time for the summer driving season." Soaring fuel prices "couldn't come at a worse time or place for Vice President Al Gore, a standard-bearer of administration environmental policy," the article adds, "who was traveling last week through the region he desperately needs to win in order to defeat George W. Bush ? the Midwest." Remember, AlGore the Junior is also responsible for the dearth of offshore production and the closing of the huge Alaskan field to oil development.