…or so it would seem they think so anyway. Below is a quote of a recent AP story:
HOUSTON (AP) – Texans hitting the road for Thanksgiving are finding retail gas prices at levels to give thanks for.
The weekly AAA Texas gasoline price survey released Wednesday found self-serve, regular was averaging $1.75 per gallon. That’s 13 cents lower than last week.
Nationally, the average price per gallon fell 16 cents to $1.86 per gallon.
The most expensive gasoline this week was in El Paso, where it averaged $1.92 per gallon.
The cheapest gas is in Amarillo, at $1.66 per gallon.
AAA Texas spokeswoman Sarah Schimmer says the auto club expects 7.8% of all U.S. travel during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend to be in Texas. Schimmer says 2.5 million Texans plan to be driving.
Note the line I bolded there. Currently gas in Lubbock, which is easily checked at texasgasprices.com, is averaging $1.50/gal. So obviously Amarillo does NOT have the cheapest gas in the state.
I could understand not checking lots of small towns, but Lubbock is at least as big as Amarillo, if not bigger, and certainly has received plenty of national attention in the sports arena lately.
Normally I would have passed this off as a slip up or even rushing to do the report and not having complete facts, but every time they release one of these, which seems to be weekly, it’s the same thing.
What gives AP?
Another prime example of “journalism” being dead in this country. All you read pretty much nowadays are regurgitated press releases as this one from AAA. At least that is what I think is the problem. Still, as you probably did in less than 5 minutes, even a first semester journalism student could have corrected.