st. petersberg at one time. the emergency center was activated virtually the whole three month period of time, and you deal with those issues, lots of them, and we talk about the crisis you go through in the book as well, and so that's the second part of the job. the third part of the job is advancing your vision for the city. now, it's interesting because that's why you run. you run because you want to do something and you have a plan, a thought, and you want to make the city better, and yet quite often a mayor gets bogged down in doing the issues, the budget issues are hard or dealing with the crisis as they come. you can get so bogged down you never get to the point of advancing your vision or get stopped in the middle. you have to be focused and your organization has to be focused to continue that forward momentum in advancing your vision while dealing with the crisis and business going forward. in our case, we had a five-point plan, the strategic plan for the city to advance division, and i think every one

st. petersberg times that they still have two pages, but what is changes is both the way people are reading, in other words, the vehicle, and i think to some extent what they are reading, but mainly how they are reading is what's changing. we emphasize -- when book editors always covered the latest books tied into the publishing industry in bookstores and so on, and so i think there's one thing that's happening is people are kind of disassociating themselves with the usual traditional vehicles, and so they are looking for -- people love books and want to read. i don't think that's changed, but they are looking for other ways of reading in an easier read and younger people are used to the handheld devices and see nothing wrong reading on the devices. old fogeys don't want to books, but the content is still the same. i'm happy about that. >> what do you think the paper got rid of their book review section? >> you know, i really don't know. i think it's a big mistake. they say there's no advertising for the book pages which is true enough. the book industry is on the ropes. bookstores don't ad

st. petersberg but that started here in the city of st. tersberg i think in 18914. >> host: tampa is the first of eight cities which are three local content vehicles that well be visiting as we expand the each of our programming around the country. for more information visit our web page. you can go to the c-span home page there and find a link as well. let's go on to our next call in webster, north carolina. caller: thank you for taking my call. we are retired folks and our gas prices in this area are about $3.64. actually, we're not taking any long vacations this year. we don't drive our car on any trip more than 40 or 50 miles. but i would like to comment on a couple of things that nobody has spoken about this morning. one of the reasons that gas price is so high is because the tremendously high federal tax, the federal tax, at 56 cents every gallon and state tax and most states charge 30 or 35 cents a gallon. one thing that people should know also is the fact that gas or energy and food are not figured into the inflation rate. and food