71.   Abraham has long resisted mileage standards for automobiles and he led the charge last year, when gasoline prices in Michigan were rising, to suspend the gasoline tax.

72.   According to press reports this weekend, the IMF is demanding the government increase domestic gasoline prices as one of the conditions for an agreement.

73.   Adjusted for inflation, gasoline prices are as low as they have been in decades, and interest rates are down, too.

74.   Also boosting crude is a surge in gasoline prices to five-year highs amid lean inventories, rising demand and a spate of production problems at U.S. refineries.

75.   British gasoline prices are even higher than those in neighboring countries because the value of the British pound has climbed sharply against most other currencies.

76.   Bush and Abraham spoke as senior administration officials voiced concern over rising gasoline prices and looked to oil-producing allies to replace oil supplies interrupted by Iraq.

77.   Bush Friday showed little interest in finding a way to lower gasoline prices immediately.

78.   Bush has remained largely mute on the recent increase in gasoline prices, even as Gore loudly accuses oil companies of price gouging, antitrust violations and collusion.

79.   Bush said on Friday that gasoline prices were high because refineries, which administration officials said had been hobbled by environmental laws, could not increase output.

80.   Bush, during a Monday photo opportunity with Emir Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, ignored questions about gasoline prices.