Equally amusing is the screenshot - they sent Lisa Daniels (based in NYC presumably) all the way to.....NYC!
HellO!?!?! Manhattan? Island? Urban landscape? Traffic? Of course the prices are going to be astronomical there (it's $3/gallon here which is crazy but she's in front of a $3.75/gal placard)!
More laziness disguised as news and/or reporting.
Just one of my pet peeves is any reporting about gas prices always involved B-roll of gas station price signs. And they are always the most unbelievable numbers typically 20% or more above what people are actually paying. They find a full service station and then shoot their sign to prove that people are paying $4 a gallon. Its lazy and its incredibly prejudicial and they know it. Instead of having to go out and do some REAL reporting, they just use the same old footage which has no actual relation to the current story. Its like with the MSM talkes about Rush, they always use a picture from the 80's when he was really fat.