Gasoline ignites Gore-Bush battle

  • 22/06/2000

  • International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)

Worried that voters will blame the Clinton administration - and Vice President Al Gore-for the recent surge in gasoline prices, the Gore campaign has begun an effort to paint Governor George W. Bush of Texas, a onetime oil company executive, as a tool of the oil interests that the campaign says are relentlessly gouging consumers. Democrat officials said new polling shows that voters believe the price of gasoline is by far the No. 1 problem in the country.