CBS Evening News - 2001-05-14
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[0:03] The energy crunch tightens. Gasoline
[0:05] prices up again, but could it be the
[0:07] worst will soon be over? The Bush energy
[0:10] plan, less environmental protection,
[0:13] more production. Some unions buy in,
[0:16] voters get worried.
[0:18] And a Texas energy company is accused of
[0:21] cheating Californians out of billions of
[0:24] dollars. Also tonight, the big FBI
[0:26] evidence foul-up. McVeigh considers an
[0:29] appeal, Nicor files one, and I on
[0:32] America. Is the government helping
[0:35] McVeigh become a martyr?
[0:42] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:45] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:47] headquarters in New York.
[0:50] Good evening. The price of gasoline is
[0:52] breaking records and budgets all over
[0:54] America. A US Energy Department survey
[0:56] taken today finds that gasoline went up
[0:59] another penny in the past week to a
[1:01] nationwide average now of $1.71 a
[1:04] gallon. It's even higher for so-called
[1:07] reformulated gasoline, now averaging
[1:10] $1.83 a gallon. With every increase in
[1:13] prices of gasoline and other energy,
[1:15] comes new pressure on President Bush to
[1:17] take action. In the latest CBS News poll
[1:20] out tonight, Americans name the energy
[1:23] situation as the number one problem
[1:25] facing the government. Two months ago,
[1:27] it didn't even make the list.
[1:30] President Bush is set to announce his
[1:31] energy plan later this week. Today, he
[1:34] made a new move to blunt criticism from
[1:36] environmental protection groups and
[1:38] conservationists. CBS News White House
[1:40] correspondent John Roberts begins our
[1:42] coverage.
[1:44] Six months ago, these union leaders
[1:46] battled to keep George Bush out of the
[1:47] White House. Today, the Whit