Gas station raises price during live news segment about gas prices
As ABC News’ Cecilia Vega introduced her piece on high gas prices, the sign at the downtown Los Angeles gas station behind her showed the price of regular gas at $4.99 a gallon. However when the piece concluded nearly two minutes later the price of regular gas had jumped 10 cents to $5.09 a gallon.
Even Vega seemed truly surprised to see such a drastic change in such a short period of time, telling Sawyer that “it is almost too unbelievable to believe.”
“Almost too unbelievable to believe.” That line’s almost too ridiculous to ridicule.
“It went up 10 cents?” asked Sawyer, herself shocked at what just had occurred.
“Ten cents during that two minutes while we were on the air,” confirmed Vega.
Here, watch it yourself:
Notice how they mention “gas gouging,” and air a guy who blames the gas station (or maybe the oil company) for wanting “to make more money.”
Words not mentioned: Obama; Keystone; oil sands; government regulations; overhead. They did, at least, point out that taxes are a major piece of the price.
Also, despite their apparent angst over the high-and-rising prices, both Diane and Cecilia manage to avoid mention of several easy policy steps the federal government could take to help out.
Odd.
Cheap Shot of the Day: when’s the last time Diane Sawyer had to gas up her own car?
Via Instapundit and Memeorandum.
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