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fill up your tank alert

http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2004/may/05_17_1.html

ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Al Qaida was said to be preparing for another major attack in Saudi Arabia.

Western diplomatic sources said embassies and foreign companies have been warned of the prospect of another major Al Qaida strike in the kingdom. The sources said the Al Qaida network in Saudi Arabia has been encouraged by the flight of Westerners from the kingdom in wake of previous insurgency strikes.

"The most likely prospect is an attack on a Western compound or office," a diplomatic source said. "It's a tried-and-true method and it causes the most panic among the expatriate community."

On Saturday, a gun battle took place outside a Western housing compound on the edge of Riyad. Reports of the shooting were sketchy with witnesses asserting that four gunmen were captured. Nobody from the compound was injured, and later the Interior Ministry denied that an attack had taken place.

I just spent $45 to get barely 3/4 of a tank of regular gas two days ago. It makes me mad every time I go to the gas station. Not to mention the lady next to me was talking on her cell phone. Did you see what happened to that guy in NY whose cell phone rang and made a spark which caught the vapors as well as him on fire?

Appeal to the Governator

The rising cost of gas prompted UCAN to ask Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a fuel emergency. In a letter dated May 10, Executive Director Michael Shames recommended several steps the state government could take to provide some relief to consumers.

For starters, he urged the suspension of the sale of 89 octane gasoline in the state. Eliminating this grade of gasoline would free up the equivalent of nearly 200 million gallons of storage at terminals and stations around the state, based upon industry observer estimates, Shames wrote.

His second recommendation was for the state to deploy California Public Utilities Commission electricity inspectors as "refinery cops" to conduct spot checks on refineries that are undergoing planned or unplanned operation outages and prevent the "economic perversion" of the 2001 electricity crisis.

Shames also wants the state to impose a windfall profits tax on oil companies that are "opportunistically gouging" their customers.

http://www.sandiego.com/sdbusiness.jsp?id=296