http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/394348|top|03-30-2004::07:06|reuters.html
President Bush, faced with record-high fuel prices, will accuse Democrat John Kerry on Tuesday of wanting to increase gasoline taxes.
A new television advertisement from the Bush re-election campaign seeks to pre-empt Kerry's announcement on Tuesday of a new plan to reduce fuel costs.
"Some people have wacky ideas, like taxing gasoline more so people drive less. That's John Kerry," the Bush ad will say.
The 30-second ad will run on Wednesday in 18 battleground states and nationally on cable television.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration on Monday announced the average nationwide price of regular unleaded gasoline had set a new high of $1.758 per gallon. The agency has predicted prices will march higher in April and May due to tight supplies.
From KerryKerry Hits Bush on Gas Prices, Has Plan to Cut Cost http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/381249|top|03-30-2004::03:05|reuters.html
With U.S. retail gasoline prices at a record high, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Tuesday will propose a new policy to reduce fuel costs, igniting a political fight over how much Americans pay at the pump.
Blaming the spike on the "failed policies" of Republican President Bush -- a former Texas oilman -- Kerry would pressure oil-producing nations to increase production and temporarily suspend filling the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, campaign aides said.
Kerry has chosen San Diego, which has the highest gas prices in the country -- $2.12 for a gallon of regular unleaded -- to lay out his proposals.
"I happened to notice that gas is now close to $3 a gallon here in California," he told a fund-raiser in San Francisco. "If it keeps going up like that, (Vice President) Dick Cheney and President Bush are going to have to carpool to work together."
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