On today's SanDiego News Now Podcast: Gas prices are over $5 a gallon at most San Diego gas stations, and while most of us complain about paying that much at the pump, people who drive for a living, like rideshare drivers, are hurting the most. 🎧 Listen:
More on that next. But first... let’s do the headlines….San Diego Unified has a new superintendent. The district announced on Monday that interim superintendent Dr Lamont Jackson would be given the permanent job. He’s replacing Cindy Marten, who resigned after becoming deputy secretary of the US department of education.
KPBS reporter Kitty Alvarado spent the day with a rideshare driver who says gas prices will force many to quit the job altogether.Tonje Ettsevoll has been a ride share driver for five years … but this is the first time she’s had to pay almost six dollars for a gallon of gasoline …Gas os 5.
I had a passenger that was very upset that he paid $85 for his ride and I said ‘wow that’s a lot, what do you think I got? 18, $18 out of 85 so it’s really really tough. And it makes it harder to justify going out late at night picking up people who are drunk when you don’t get paid good money In the Philippines, they get off, you know they have these crazy parties with carousels of prostitutes and non stop drinking they share photos of women afterwards they they took crudely about women all this kind of stuff is in the indictments.”