Weekend SPORTS entertainment Thursday SULL Angels win TOC game ...................................Page 6 .............Page 3 June 19, 2008 INSIDE Mendocino County’s Obituaries The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Friday: Mostly sunny H 90º L 52º 7 58551 69301 0 Saturday: Partly sunny; H 89º L 53º 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 150 Number 71 email:
[email protected] Legislation aims to clarify credit vs. cash gas prices The Daily Journal what they’re paying, particularly with the method of purchase, with some ly disclosed to the public. price for a gallon of regular gasoline With gasoline prices on the rise, prices at the pump rising meteorical- station owners discounting the price Californians purchase, on average, in California was $4.60 per gallon this state Sen. Patricia Wiggins (D-Santa ly,” Wiggins said. “And gas station per gallon for cash transactions. about 16 billion gallons of gasoline week. In Ukiah, prices ranged from Rosa) has introduced legislation that owners must do a better job of telling Credit cards can add about 2 to 3 per- per year. As of May 2008, the average $4.55 to $4.63 per gallon. would require gas stations to display consumers that they will pay a lower cent to the cost of the transaction – a price of a gallon of gasoline had Wiggins describes SB 623, which the price difference between transac- price for gas if they fill up using cash higher cost paid for the “conve- topped $4 per gallon in the state -- an has yet to be scheduled for its first tions paid for with cash and with cred- instead of plastic.” nience” of using a credit card at the increase of more than 69 percent over hearing in the Legislature, as a “con- it cards.