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ABC News Headline Welcome to World News. Tonight, a public health concern affecting millions of Americans, the much prescribed 처방된 diabetic 당뇨병 환자용의 drug that may be endangering 위태롭게 하다 lives. Profits and pain. Gas prices hit another all-time 전대미문의 high. We look at one seldom 좀처럼 ~않는 discussed reason for the pain at the pump <주유소의> 주유펌프, 즉 주유소를 의미함. And remembering Reagan. Three years after Ronald Reagan’s death, the former first lady tells Diane Sawyer what she misses the most. From ABC News headquarters, this is World News with Charles Gibson. 기름값 연일 고가행진 We’re going to turn next to gas prices. Another Monday, another record high for the price of a gallon. The government says the price of gas went up 12 cents a gallon from last week when it was already at a record high. Current average, $3.22. As ABC’s Lisa Stark reports, one reason for price increases comes long before the gas gets to the pump. Well, Charlie, why are prices so high? We have told you that demand just keeps going up and we’ve reported on the fact that Americans keep buying those big, gas-guzzling <자동차 엔진 등이> 연료를 많이 소비하는 vehicles, but what we haven’t talked much about is oil refineries 정유공장. For drivers, there’s no end in sight to the gasoline price shock. “It’s beginning to get beyond the budget.” The recent pain at the pump is not due to ~에 기인하는 high crude oil prices. They are below record levels. Some analysts instead point to the nation’s 149 refineries where they turn that oil into gasoline. There have been more than 30 unplanned refinery shutdowns 폐쇄 since January due to everything from fires to equipment failures. That’s reduced production by about 400,000 barrels of gasoline a day, four times more than usual for this time of year. That means there’s less supply on hand 바로 곁에 just as the summer driving season is taking off 출발하다. “That’s created kind of the perfect situation for people who get concerned, that the summer could indeed show some real shortages of gasoline.”