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Show September Thursday, 1, 2005 Gas prices Continuedfrom Al Pipelines in the Gulf states, dis- Sreene otesion snd ribution,sending gjasoline In Orem, those concerns Were manifest in the long lines of cars waiting to get gas for S24 alot Cato at550 p.m. on Wednesday. lees exieaded 0stockto the University Mall Cinemas — an occurrence Costco gas attendant John Allen described as “abnormal.” “Weusually get four cars'in a line on typical day. But for the past three days, we've been oemSthan eight cars per ae cas waiting in line at Costco cited media reports Wednesdayofgasoline prices rising by 10 to 30 cents a gallon overthe next few days because ofpotential supply disruptions in the aftermath of Katrina. Otherscited higher prices at nearbygas stations. “People are bringing in the ATVs, SUVs,and anyold junk that can hold gasoline.I even saw lady fill up her car and two5-gallon tanks,” said Ben Paz of ile, who was waiting to fill up the “42-gallon” tank in his Toyota Landcruiser, Tee ee Paz said. “I wasn't going to. jet gas today but after [heard ra aiofeats f that gas prices could goup anoth- er 10 cents to 30 cents over the next few days,I cameout here.” Jordan McBride of Provo said he agreed. “The Chevronstation on State Street and University Parkway wascharging $2.79 a gallon,”he said. “At Costco,it’s only $2.44. That makes all the difference.” Tocut back on gasoline consumption,Paz is using his mountain bike moreoften, whichhelped cut the amount of driving he does to about 100 miles every three days. “That . means | need to fill the tank every 10 days to two weeks.I'm hopingtostretch this tank to two weeks,”he said. John Unice of Provo, who was filling up his Toyota 4Runner at Costco,is resigned. “Like DAILY aeay eevee | traq a or a half. “And $2.89 is the price before retailers tack on 40 ae to6o0 | cents a gallon for profit mar- | = Al bérrage near the Shiite shrine where they were headed and | the ever-present fear of suicide |_ bombers, etched into memories after repeated attacks against | largereligious gatherings. | Seven people died in the mor. | tar barrage three hours before | the stampede,the U.S. military | said. | Police later said they found an emergency government stockpile, hit the market. “But that crude oil still needs to be refined and refining capacity is severely limited, especially in the southeast.” Also raising prices are sup- | —either on anyindividual or in any cars parked nearby.Instead, poor crowd control and the climateoffear in Iraq after years ofbullets, bombings and bloodshed appeared largely to have caused the horrific car- Strategic Petroleum Reserve, | no explosives at the bridge ply concerns stemming from nage. a shutdown Wednesdayof Sinclair's refinery in Rawlins, Wyo., which supplies product to Utah,Hill said. “But we have five otherrefineries in the north Salt Lakearea,plus imports from Canada, Colorado and Montana.” Despite prospects of further price spikes, Fairclough says Utah still ranks as one of the better-priced states for gasoline in the nation. “Wemaysee prices hit our pocket,but there are lots of peoplein Louisiana who've lost| muchmore,”she said. Alison Johnson of Orem ae she agreed. On Wednesday, was paying $2.79 a gallon.at ce ExtraMart Chevronstation to fill her 16-gallon tank Toyota 4Runner. “It'sstill bearable, compared with otherthings.I don't have a choice becauseI still need to get to work,”she said, saying she has to buy gas every three days because her workplace is in Draper. “Whyshould we complain about gas prices whenthere are people dying, don’t haveelectricity, in Louisiana?” Marchers jammed upat a checkpoint at the western aneee of the Imams bridge, whic! eee|for months to prevent movement by extremists between the Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah should have been taken to Protect the lives ofcitizens and organize their processions,” Iraqi Communist Party leader Hameed Majid Mousatold AlArabiyatelevision. “Weall know thatthere areterrorists whe lie in wait for such events and prepare to ambush the people. ... Whyare the proces- sions not organized?” al about | million pilgrims from Baghdad and outlying provinc- es had gathered near the shrine on Wednesday. Reflecting the confusion, casualty figures from various governmentagencies also varied widely. The Health Minis- try said 769 people werekilled and 307 wounded, while the Interior Ministry put the figure at 844 dead and 458 injured. The labani, a Kurd,told state-run country’s biggest Shiite party gavefigures of 759 dead and Iraqiya television that “the gov- 300 wounded. Other reports Iraqi PresidentJalal Ta- ernmentshould take measures for an honest investigation to determine how failures doubled the casualties.” The marchers were commemoratingthe death in the year 799 of Imam Moussa ibn Jaafar al-Kadhim, oneof the 12 principle Shiite saints whois estimated the death toll would climb above1,000. “Pushing started whena rumorwas spread by’a terrorist who claimed that there was a person with an explosive belt, which caused panic,” Interior Minister Bayn Jabr said. “Some fell from the bridge, others fell buried in a mosquein the narth- on the barricades” and were ern Baghdad neighborhood of Kazimiyah. Since the 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussein, a Sunni, the Shiite political parties have encouraged huge turnouts at and the Sunni district of Azareligiousfestivals to display miyah across the river. the majority sect’s power in “This tragedy was the direct the new Iraq. Sunni religious result of terrorism; hundreds of extremists have often targeted innocent people, mostly women. the gatherings to fomentsecand chikiren'thavedied because tarian war,but that has not of the fear and panic that terstopped the Shiites. rorists are sowing in Iraq,” The ceremonies have often " NATOSecretary-General Jaap been chaotic, with huge crowds de Hoop Scheffersaid in a overtaxing theability of police statement. andsecurity services to protect Defense Minister Saadoun them. Television reportssaid al-Dulaimi, a Sunni, said three suicide bombers were stopped: Wednesday somedistance from theshrine, but “blew themselves up before reaching their destination.” State Department spokesman Sean McCormacksaidin Washington that he was not ‘awareofany evidence that the stampedeon the bridge was caused by a suicide bombing. Others blamed the governmentand the U.S.+rained security forces. Zane Berry Has found a new homeat trampled to death. Noofficial offered any evidence that Sunni insurgents were directly responsible for spreading the false rumor. Scoresof bodies covered with white sheets lay on the sidewalk outside one hospital underthebroiling sun because the morgue was packed. Many of them were womenin black gowns,as well as children and old men. Sobbingrelatives wandered amongthe dead,lifting the sheetsto try to identify their kin. Whenthey found them, they wouldshriek in grief, pound their chests or collapse to the ground, sobbing. Prime Minister Ibrahim alJaafari; a Shiite, declared a three-day mourning period. In otherviolence, a U.S. soldier was killed and three were wounded Wednesday when a bomb exploded in the city of Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad,the U.S. military said. The military also said another American soldier was killed Tuesday by a bombin Eseeeryen, 30 miles south of Baghda The Seal mortar and rockets fired at the Shiite neighbor ‘hood before the march struck about 600 yards from the Imam Kadhim shrine, the U.S. mili- tary said. U.S. Apache helicoptersfired at the attackers. In March 2004 suicide attackersstruck worshippersat the Imam Kadhim shrine and a holysite in Karbala,killing at least 181 overall. The head of the country’s major Sunniclerical group, the Association of Muslim Scholars,told Al-Jazeeratelevision that Wednesday's disaster was “anothercatastrophe and something else that could be added to thelist of ongoing Iraqi tragedies.” “On this occasion we want to express our condolences to all the Iraqis and the parents of the martyrs, who fell today in Kazimiyahand all overIraq,” said the cleric, Haith al-Dhari. _ 1220 South State Street COUGARAUTO SALES Phone: 228-9922 Zaneisinviting all of his previous customers _ to visit him & find the best kept secret in auto values in Utah County! high gas prices for a long, long time.” But suchprice spikes aren't typical this time of the year, especially as refineries seek to dispose of their inventories of summer formulated grades and switch to producing winterformulated grades, said Rolayne Fairclough, spokeswomanfor “Because of Katrina,the punishing prices will continue through September and the pricerelief we typically see aroundthis time won't be seen this year,”she said. Lee Peacock,presidentof the Utah Petroleum Association, Continued “Earlysecurity measures gins, transportation fees and taxes, so you can imagine what the upeide. wil be forretail ens prices,” Fairclough said. Highgas prices hurt the economy because money spent on gasoline can't be spent on otherthings. Peacock said prices could stabilize as supplies from the taxes, we're going to be paying AAA Utah. H ERALD eve www. ftosales.com Zane Berry 565 N. State ¢ Orem, UT ZEDGE « said he believes Utah will feel the rippleeffect of tightening supplies across the nation. “Utah isn't insulated from the market forces that will sweep the country,”he said. “Even though wedon't get crudeoil from the Southeast, our crude supplies from Wyoming, Colotado, Montana may be diverted to the East Coast area because that’s where the highest prices are. That means ourrefiners will have to pay moreto get their crudesupplies.” John Hill, state director ofthe Utah Petroleum Marketers Association, agreed. “Twenty-five percent of U.S. oil production is in the Coast, 10 percentof U.S.oil importsgo to the Gulf Coast, 45 percentofrefined product comes out of the Gulf Coast, and now 95 percentof that is shut down,”he said. “The East Coast areas are already scrambling,andwill start pulling product from central United States, then the Midwest and eventually the Intermountain west area.” Thanksto Katrina, wholesale prices,or prices charged to gasoline wholesalers by refineries “went through the roofin the last 24 hours,” Peacocksaid. 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