Campaigns use gas prices to gain support

POLITICAL RACE IGNITES AS GAS PRICES CREEP HIGHER AND HIGHER - TODAY A HANDFUL OF GAS STATIONS ...  More »

POLITICAL RACE IGNITES AS GAS PRICES CREEP HIGHER AND HIGHER - TODAY A HANDFUL OF GAS STATIONS BECAME THE SITES OF POLITICAL RALLIES FOR SUPPORTERS OF EITHER STEVE PEARCE OR TOM UDALL. STUART DYSON IS LIVE AT THE PUMPS AT I-40 AND RIO GRANDE. POLITICS AT THE PUMP AS PARTIES PROTEST PRICES - IT'S PEARCE VERSUS UDALL FOR U.S. SENATE - EACH GUY ACCUSING THE OTHER OF DROPPING THE BALL ON OIL PRICES. OUT Q 'TOM UDALL!' THE DEMOCRATS STARTED IT - RALLYING AT THREE ALBUQUERQUE FILLING STATIONS AND ONE EACH IN CLOVIS AND LAS CRUCES - ACCUSING REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN STEVE PEARCE OF BEING A STOOGE FOR BIG OIL - HE DID MAKE A FORTUNE IN THE HOBBS OIL PATCH. 'Right now New Mexicans can't afford it - while oil companies are just getting richer - people like Steve Pearce aren't looking out for the interests of people that they're supposed to represent.''STEVE PEARCE!' BUT REPUBLICANS CRASHED THE DEMOCRATS PUMP- PARTY NEAR UNM - POINTING OUT UDALL'S SUPPORT FROM ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS - AND HIS LONG RECORD OPPOSING OFFSHORE AND ARCTIC OIL DRILLING. ' And the people of America support that and that's why Congressman Pearce supports that - because he understands exactly what they understand - which is the way to lower gas prices in this country is to increase our supply and increase our supply of domestic energy - that way we're not relying on foreign sources.' IN THE END - A KIND OF MIXED MESSAGE - FOR DRIVERS BLASTING ALONG ON CENTRAL AVENUE - AND ONE SIGN STANDING TALL OVER IT ALL - FOUR BUCKS A GALLON ON THE WAY. NEW MEXICO'S STATEWIDE AVERAGE GAS PRICE POPPED UP ANOTHER PAINFUL PENNY TODAY - THREE NINETY NINE A GALLON - WITH ALBUQUERQUE ABOUT A DIME CHEAPER AND MANY PLACES OVER FOUR BUCKS. AT I-40 AND RIO GRANDE STUART DYSON EYEWITNESS NEWS FOUR. TRIPLE-A SAYS  « Less