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ABC News Headline
Welcome to World News. Tonight, gas and diesel hit another record. People tell us they’re sacrificing ~을 희생하다, 단념하다 food, health and their lifestyle just to fill the tank. Only child. The cry now being heard from so many parents in
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According to today’s numbers, gas is now officially over $4 a gallon in Chicago and it’s pretty darn <구어, 완곡> damn close in Los Angeles, Miami, Seattle, San Francisco, Cleveland, and New York City. The angst 불안, 걱정 and anger over these prices has the politicians in Washington on high alert 초 경계태세에 hauling 연행하다, 소환하다 big oil executives 경영진, 중역 before the judiciary committee 법사 위원회 this Wednesday.
Today, the oil industry was playing defense. “There’s no question it’s a burden <마음의> 부담, 걱정 on consumers. And what the industry is doing is working very hard to find more energy, working very hard to supply energy as cheaply as possible.” Also today, the White House criticized 비난하다 Congress 연방의회 for not doing enough to ease 완화시키다, 덜다 the pain. “Going from Band-Aid 임시 수단, 미봉책 to Band-Aid that they think will have an impact, but really won’t.”
The pain is being felt all over the country. We here at ABC News are getting flooded 넘치다, 쇄도하다 with messages from people like Rosario Germaine who says, I even stop filling <처방약 따위를> 조제하다 a much needed monthly prescription 처방약 that cost $45, so I will have more money for gas. “I don’t get out and enjoy things anymore. I just kind of sit at home and only go to and from work and like grocery shopping and that’s it.”
In this email, Brenda Hensley told us the price of diesel fuel is putting her husband’s excavating 발굴하는, <터널 따위를> 굴착하는 business in peril 위험한. We can’t raise our hourly rates enough to break even 이익도 손해도 없는, she says, and realizing a profit is no longer an option.