ig report had been leaked through the press. it is unclear if they will resign in the irs in the days to come. but they will be keeping an eye on the hearing today. thanks, patti ann? thanks, heather. now to stories you can bank on this morning. a roller-coaster for gas prices. joining us from fox business network is lauren simonetti. gas prices started the year at 3.29 a gallon. today your national average is $3.61 a gallon. this past month it s up $0.08 alone. one of the reasons we see the spike it has nothing to do with supply. four different refineries in illinois, tulsa, oklahoma and el dorado, kansas causing some states to see huge spikes. in minneapolis record prices there up $0.59 in the past month. milwaukee and cincinnati gas prices rising by $0.35 heading
director of the american beverage institute. welcome. thanks for having me. thanks for being here. you called the ntsb s proposal ludicrous. why? it is ludicrous. it is so ludicrous in fact even mothers against drunk driving isn t supporting it. the fact is this recommendation targets moderate social drinkers and it fails to target the hard core high bac repeat offenders who cause the vast majority of alcohol related fatalities. if we want to solve the drunk driving problem in this country we have to target the people that are out there killing people and that is not somebody who is at 0.05. fewer than 1% of traffic fatalities happen down there at that 0.05 or 0.08 level. we have to focus on the high bac offenders if we want to make a dent in the problem. you heard what deborah said. a similar proposal in europe cut alcohol-related deaths in 2010. in half. how could you argue with the numbers? i m afraid that the ntsb is really cherry picking their data. you know, they are do
record high. tuesday was the 19th time this year the dow has closed at a record high. it is up more than 16% year to date. the s&p 500 is not far behind up 15.7% for the year. you look at the u.s. economy, u.s. stocks, and then you compare it to europe and you say, we re sitting pretty compared to europe. opening bell just rang. stocks are starting a little bit to the down side, carol. all right. i m sure you ll keep an eye on them. alison kosik reporting live from the new york stock exchange. approximately 10,000 people are killed every year in alcohol-related crashes. now the national transportation safety board wants to cut that number by cutting the legal blood alcohol limit. the ntsb proposal would lower the threshold from 0.08 to 0.05 nationwide. we looked at current standards and based on a national highway traffic safety administration chart we found a 120-pound woman
of those people that are killed or killed, you know, driving drunk, like is there an average blood alcohol content? well, many of people who are involved in impaired driving crashes do have a higher blood alcohol content than 0.05. but the issue really is how do we have a general deterrent effect and what we know is when we went in this country from 0.10 or higher to 0.08 that actually reduced the number of drinks or reduced the impairment level for all drivers, low bac and high bac. it really is important to understand that the u.s., we lead in so many of the transportation safety issues and almost transportation but in this one we trail. 100 countries have blood alcohol contents of 0.05 or lower. it s because the science supports the data that people are impaired at 0.05. and another question. just because there is a federal standard of course it doesn t
expertise and corporation. u.s. officials say it won t set back russian relations. but a spokesman for vladimir putin says this incident does not help. if new regulations recording alcohol limits go into effect, you might want to rethink that second drink. the national transportation safety board has recommended lowering the legal blood alcohol from 0.08 to 0.05. that s the equivalent of two glasses of wine in an hour. the board says it doesn t expect the proposal to be popular. but it will reduce the 10,000 drunk driving deaths in the u.s. each year. and now, here s your first look at this morning s dish of scrambled politics. a mere two months after the republican national committee rolled out a multimillion-dollar minority outreach, a major player is jumping ship. pablo pantoya he wrote the move