Earlier today while looking for news on the earthquake in Taiwan, I saw a picture of a gas-price sign that looked really familiar. It was being used as proof that gas prices were out of control--coming in at $100/tank. Of course, the picture looked familiar to me because I had taken one of the exact same sign but from the opposite side for my photoseries on gas-price signs. Hey, I walk and take the bus a lot--I've got to pass the time somehow!
Anyway, so the picture I took was at an absurdly over priced gas station selling no-name brand gas for about 60¢ more than most other stations were at the time. Here comes CNN using a pic of the same sign a month later as though that station is representative of all prices here in Los Angeles.
In fact, I only know of one "Prena" brand gas station and that one is it--on the corner of Melrose and Fairfax. When I saw the prices they were charging I immediately wondered to myself if they were just a mob front. So, I'd like to thank CNN for sensationalizing news, one more time!
As if gas prices aren't bad enough all on their own!
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Orignal From: CNN.com More Quality Reporting!
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