Clinton at the Gas Station in Pittsburgh (Bloomfield)

[RamboLiberal]

In her first campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Senator Hillary Clinton talked about a topic that has been hitting many Americans hard: the high cost of gasoline.

Clinton talked about her plans to help relieve those rising prices at the pump during a campaign stop at Curran's Gulf Station in Bloomfield.

This afternoon's visit is Sen. Clinton's first to our region in her bid for the White House; but it's not the last.

Later today, she'll be heading to a rally in Oakland; and the public is invited to hear her speak at Soldiers and Sailors Hall.

http://kdka.com/politics/Campaign.2008.Clinton.2.676993.html



Curran's Gulf gas station at the base of the Bloomfield Bridge is the site for Senator Hillary Clinton's first campaign stop in Pittsburgh; but the owner of that station says he still hasn't decided if the New York senator will get his vote.

Clinton is scheduled to visit the gas station at 2:30pm to talk about her plan to solve the energy crisis.

Jay Curran has run his Gulf station for 24-years; but he needed some convincing when he got a call from the Clinton campaign yesterday.

"We'd like to have her do a story at your place," Curran told KDKA about the call. "I said, 'Nah. I'm not really interested!"

But Curran says they persisted.

http://kdka.com/local/Campaign.2008.Clinton.2.677275.html

I used to work in what is known as the strip district which was a few blocks from this gas station. Know the neighborhood well. Bloomfield was a big Italian area of Pittsburgh. Not far from the strip district, Polish Hill, East Liberty, Oakland, etc.

[Dems Will Win]

1. What a hypocrite! Her and Bill ahave been on the take from the Saudis and the Emir of Dubai

The Clintons won't do a damn thing about the high price of oil as a result.


I think her energy plan is a scam as a result. I mean, how can you believe anything the Clintons say at this point?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Ghandi's gas station?

[Johnny__Motown]

3. Bill had a huge projected surplus thanks to the tech boom and still NO energy plan in 8 years

The reason we are suffering now is the simple fact that Bill did nothing.

He had the chance.

Hell even Jimmy Carter told us 20 years before Bill was in office that we had a problem and needed to deal with it.

Other countries have done well with sugar based ethanol as well as geo-thermal, we have done almost nothing along these lines (corn based ethanol is a pipe dream, yes I know we can't grow sugar cane this far from the equator that isn't my point).



Why should we even consider the possibility that Hillary will do anything positive along these lines? All she is trying to do is make political hay out of her not voting for the current energy policy while Barack did.

[Dems Will Win]

4. Hillary will say anything and do nothing

[joshcryer]

5. I am completely stumped by the relevancy of this comment.

You do realize there were 8 years since Bill left office until now, right? Yaknow, years that Al Gore *would* have changed energy policy.

It'd be something to make that comment if this was the year 2000 and we were having these problems.

But this is fucking 2008!

[Mnpaul]

6. Who holds an event not open to the public at a gas station?

Hillary, I guess. doesn't make much sense to me.

[DearAbby]

7. Hillary is gonna get on the blower, and call the Saud's

to open the spigot...yeah yeah yeah, we've heard this before.