world so up to now gasoline cost next to nothing but not any longer less a country lurchers ever closer to economic collapse it socialist government is desperately looking for sources of revenue. venezuela s gasoline is the cheapest in the world but that also lures people across the border to fill their tanks so last month president nicolas maduro said he d raise prices and give some venezuelans a fuel discount card instead he blamed foreigners for the move. it to norfolk timothy you know this new system aims to cut the hands off colombians good jews who steal our gasoline and steal billions of dollars of gasoline along the venezuela. maduro claims venezuela loses eighteen billion dollars a year to gasoline smuggling but analysts say the real problem is political favoritism and corruption venezuela s once proud all industry is only
about it, i was once it hit the ground on the fifth time, everything just i saw daylight. i don t know how i m here. in just a few moments, a tornado survivor remembers his mother who did not survive. and we are just getting word that a plane carrying american and british pro democracy workers has left cairo. they were accused of cementing unrest in egypt. they were ngos who were the target of a government crackdown last december. all face charges of fraud. the crisis further strained ties between new egyptian government and the united states. meantime, in syria after weeks of fighting, rebel of the free syrian army today pulled out of the district of the embattled city of homs. and that did nothing to stop the heavy shelling of homs. dissidents describe it as a blood bath and residents without food, water, or medicine. desperately needed supplies could soon be on the way. the international red cross says the syrian government has given it permission to enter homs t
an energy policy by either administrations, democrat or republican over the last 10 or so years is glaring at this point. when you think about not just what we can do with oil, natural gas, wind and solar. nuclear. there s so many avenues that americans have to access better energy policies and better energy ways and things to o do, that we re just not doing it right now. both democrats and republicans are disingenuous when you talk about this. the bottom line an the problem, you and i feel it sitting at the kitchen table looking at an extra $30 a month in gasoline cost. i mean, you have to if we look at gas prices, average prices four years ago in 2008 and now in 2012. the gas prices in november of 2008 an average of $1.81 per gallon. and now up to $3.53 a gallon.
there. reporter: marie is heading for a long drive for the easter weekend and it costs her almost $100 to fill up the honda civic. oil companies are a predictable target at times like these and so is the president. when mr. obama took office in january of 2009, oil costs just over $38 a barrel. today it s more than $112 a barrel, increase of 189%. gasoline cost $1.84-gallon then. today is almost $3.85 a gallon. increase of 108%. the steep climb may be one of the reasons that the president announced a new task force to proactively seek out fraud and manipulation of the oil trading markets. we are going to make sure that nobody is taking advantage of the american consumers. for their own short-term gain. but the task force creation has come under immediate fire from some quarters. speculators are usually one of the first suspects rounded up when prices of commodities go up. the of course conclusion, this
the gas company, trying to make money what is going on there. reporter: marie is heading for a long drive for the easter weekend and it costs her almost $100 to fill up the honda civic. oil companies are a predictable target at times like these and so is the president. when mr. obama took office in january of 2009, oil costs just over $38 a barrel. today it s more than $112 a barrel, increase of 189%. gasoline cost $1.84-gallon then. today is almost $3.85 a gallon. increase of 108%. the steep climb may be one of the reasons that the president announced a new task force to proactively seek out fraud and manipulation of the oil trading markets. we are going to make sure that nobody is taking advantage of the american consumers. for their own short-term gain. but the task force creation has come under immediate fire from some quarters. speculators are usually one of the first suspects rounded up when prices of commodities