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Gas Prices Spike
Gasoline rose by 60 cents last week in some places — by 40 cents this weekend alone — setting records all over California. Is it "malicious and manipulative trading?"
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenGasoline rose by 60 cents last week in some places — by 40 cents this weekend alone — setting records all over California. The gasoline industry blames refinery problems, but others accuse them of shipping supplies overseas to keep them tight on the West Coast. Senator Dianne Feinstein wants an investigation. Is this what she calls the "malicious and manipulative trading activity" she's seen in the past? Also, remembering a unique player in California's political history: former Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, does President Obama like his job?
Banner image: Traffic moves past a gas station in San Diego, California October 8, 2012. Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters
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3 storiesGas Prices Spike
The West Coast, including California, is not connected to gasoline pipelines in the rest of the country. It has to be supplied by its own, separate system. With fewer refineries than there used to be, it's become vulnerable to problems it could have weathered before.
Read the story17 minMeryvn Dymally, Trailblazing Black Politician, Dies at 86
Mervyn Dymally was born in Trinidad in the West Indies, and went on to come one of California's most enduring politicians. In 1962, he became the first foreign-born black person elected to the State Assembly. He served in the State Senate and became Lieutenant Governor, the first black to serve in a statewide elected office.
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Today's New York Times reports that during preparations for last week's debate, advisers saw two presidents: One that was "listless and passive," the other "energetic and aggressive." Even the President himself conceded at a star-filled fundraiser last night in Los Angeles that the wrong one showed up in Denver.
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