From today's A-1 piece on Hurricane Ike damage in today's WashPost:
Federal officials said there were no reports of major damage to the region's critical oil, gas and petrochemical installations.
From an inside the A-section piece explaining why gas prices are continuing to rise:
Gasoline prices once again soared across the country yesterday as federal officials said a preliminary survey of damage found that a number of production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico had been destroyed by Hurricane Ike.
Which federal officials said which? In the first piece, the only people quoted are George Bush, the Texas governor, the mayor of Houston, a Galveston real estate agent and a fitness instructor at the Galveston Health and Racquet Club.
The second story -- the one that leads by saying the damage was extensive enough to justify price hikes, quotes a federal bureaucrat as saying the damage to platforms was "minor!"
Meanwhile, hold your breath waiting for this administration to crack down hard on oil-company price gouging. Go ahead!
